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While a successor will have to complete Nixon's dream for the nation later in the decade, the President was optimistic enough to expect great progress by 1976, when the U.S. celebrates its 200th anniversary. "I see an America in which we have abolished hunger, in which we've checked inflation and waged a winning war against crime. I see an America at peace with all the nations of the world." Clearly, Richard Nixon has every intention of presiding over the fetes and fireworks of America's entry into its third century...
...days in Lagos and none in Biafra, said unqualifiedly that "there is no hint, even the remotest evidence of violence by the Nigerian Federal forces." Henrik Beer, secretary general of the League of Red Cross Societies in Geneva, doubted that there had ever been wholesale starvation in Biafra. But hunger remained a very real threat. Gowon adamantly refused to let relief groups use Uli airstrip, a symbol of Biafran resistance. One result of his decision was that many of the 3,500,000 people in Biafra were going hun gry. According to some estimates by churchmen and physicians, as many...
...hunger that probably did most to defeat Biafra's long-suffering defenders. On orders from Ojukwu, ammunition enjoyed priority over food shipments to Uli. Consequently, his troops had ample ammo in the war's last days, but they had been eating so poorly throughout the autumn that they simply lacked the strength to fight. Under intense pressure from federal forces, Biafra's two best divisions crumpled. The Nigerians sliced the rebel territory...
...also plans to politicize other scientists telling them that "basically, they are just workers," and that they should work with other people and groups on such issues as medical care, pollution, and hunger...
...since the exodus got under way. For many, travel by whatever means stopped at the border. Groaning lorries carrying homeward-bound Nigerians and Dahomians are stalled in columns miles long because they have not received permission to cross tiny Togo. An unknown number of people have died of hunger and exhaustion...