Word: nigerians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deals when Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani swings through major European capitals next week. Reports are circulating in Europe, however, that the Arabs are allowing international oil companies to beat the boycott, at least partially. The companies are said to be taking Indonesian, Venezuelan and Nigerian oil that is destined for Canada and other nonembargoed countries and diverting it to Dutch refineries. To make up the difference, the firms are shipping extra amounts of Arab oil to their refineries in nonembargoed nations...
...unfortunate string of injuries he has suffered in the last two seasons and his long periods of convalescence. After all, he's been playing soccer most of his life, he's got a wife and medical school applications to worry about, and coming to Harvard after playing on the Nigerian Olympic team at 16, he was playing for fun and soccer ceases to be fun when you are forced to play in constant pain...
Adedeji was able to play at half speed and will probably start, but both the lanky Nigerian forward and captain Kidder will wait until game time before making a final decision...
...BENIN. Benin's history was once the brightest of all the African kingdoms': its famous bronze sculptures are collector's items across the world. Today, the 450,000 members of this Nigerian tribe are led by Oba Akenzua II, 74. Like the Oni of Ife and the Alafin, he receives a stipend of about $10,000 a year from the Nigerian government; in addition, he has extensive landholdings that produce considerable extra income-just how much, no one will say. His successor is Crown Prince Solomon Akenzua, 48, who retired from the Nigerian civil service in June...
...protection against unfair competition from amateurs. The union speaks for those "ladies of the twilight" whose business has been hurt lately by some 10,000 part-time prostitutes. Inflation has caused the influx of amateurs; as a result of soaring prices (in both cash and cattle) for brides, Nigerian men are delaying marriage, and girls who might otherwise have been supported by husbands now take to the streets when they need money. Although prostitution is illegal in Nigeria, leaders of the union have hired a lawyer to press their case, and their president-elect, a high school dropout...