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Federal forces have encircled Biafra, the former eastern region of Nigeria. They have occupied its major cities, blockaded its coasts, and pushed an already-overcrowded population of more than 8,000,000-among them 4,500,000 refugees-into a patch of bush and swampland that is one-fourth the size of Biafra's former territory. The Biafrans, most of whom are Ibo tribesmen, fear that they will be massacred just as thousands of their kinsmen in northern Nigerian cities were killed two years ago. Many are starving, but they refuse to come out of hiding in the bush...
Cockroach Inspections. The Japanese are not the first to look upon Makati as a welcome escape from Manila. Once largely swampland, Makati has been developed since World War I by its most recent owners, the immensely successful (insurance, banking, cattle ranching and oil refining) Ayala family. Now one of the Philippines' most desirable residential and commercial areas, Makati lacks Manila's traffic jams, boasts lower taxes, cheaper office rentals and better telephone service. Over the past five years, the Ayalas have attracted such leading firms as the beer-making San Miguel Corp., Colgate-Palmolive, IBM and Eastman Kodak...
Into Open Swampland. The Communists tried to reinforce their infiltrated units inside the city; they massed troops that had marched overnight from Cambodia in groups of five and six and attempted to slip them through the ring of allied troops around the city. One group of Viet Cong women dressed in semimilitary garb was captured as it brazenly tried to march across a bridge into Saigon. Communist units approached Saigon from three directions and everywhere were beaten back. One force coming from the west was forced by U.S. armor into open swampland, where they were cut down by jet fighter...
Arsonists in Pique. The U Minh Dark Forest has served as a refuge for pirates, fugitives and guerrillas throughout Vietnamese history. Crisscrossed with hidden canals and with vegetation so thick it has resisted all attempts at defoliation, the 1,550-sq. mi. U Minh is a tangled swampland crawling with snakes, boars, tigers-and virtually untouchable Viet Cong. It has been a prime enemy redoubt since 1946, and what the Viet Cong have built in it no one but they know: no non-Communist troops have ever dared venture in, and its masters even kept villagers living on the forest...
Several months ago secret soundings began in the Butler area, near a cemetery and a swampland. The Butler yards will cost up to five times as much as the proposed Codman yards, MBTA officials estimate...