Biafra: Worsening Conditions

Outside the White House last week, a group that called itself Concerned Citizens of Rochester marched with a 7-ft. poster bearing the words: Biafra Postcard. Staring out from the poster with baleful, bulgmg eyes was a starving child, his ribs protruding and his limbs shriveled. On the reverse side was a message urging President Nixon — who was not at the White House but in California — to act on the concern he voiced during last year's presidential campaign for the Biafrans' plight.

Though other crises in other trouble spots have diverted...

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