Word: africans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Readers have written to cheer Environment's report on the vast network of conservation commissions in Massachusetts and to protest the possibility of a jetport near Florida's Everglades; they mourned, with TIME, the passing of the golden-cheeked warbler and shuddered at the arrival of the African snail. Other stories on the dangers of nuclear power, overdevelopment in Vermont, noise pollution in big cities, how to abolish billboards, antipollution suits in Illinois drew wide comment. Many readers simply expressed an opinion, as did former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, that "TIME'S concern over the environment...
...most part, made genuine efforts to see that Biafra's Ibo tribesmen were cared for. Nigerian money was rushed in to replace worthless Biafran currency, Ibo civil servants were rehired and their 30-month defection listed as "leave of absence without pay." Gowon, wearing a flowing blue African robe instead of a general's uniform, led a thanksgiving service at Lagos' Anglican cathedral. He selected and read the lesson of the service from the second chapter of Nehemiah: "Then I said unto them, ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste...
...which did not recognize Biafra but encouraged relief efforts to aid its starving people, is in a less solid position. Secretary of State William P. Rogers, who begins a ten-nation African tour in February, will be coolly received in Lagos. Said the Morning Post: "No, sir, Rogers is not welcome." But Nigerian officials later insisted that Rogers would be a welcome guest...
...small to function as working national economies. Furthermore, attempts at revising Black Africa's map would undoubtedly plunge the continent into the same sort of bloody border wars that plagued South America in the 19th century. In its founding meeting in 1963, the 41-nation Organization of African Unity adopted in principle the concept that the borders should remain as they are. As Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere said, "Our boundaries are so absurd that they must be regarded as sacrosanct." By the same token, the O.A.U. has also condemned secessionist movements. Only four member nations recognized Biafra...
...tumultuous student strike, faculty members repeatedly demanded that the courses be "intellectually respectable." That standard, for the most part, was met. The courses carry impressive titles that sound much like the other listings in the Harvard catalogue: The Concept and History of Slavery; Africa in World Politics; History of African Art; and the usual "colloquium" conducted for "concentrators" (i.e., majors) in the department...