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Biafra interest lessens
Interest in Biafra has lessened here, but Europeans are still as interested in it as we are in Vietnam, said Mrs. Judith Kahane.
Mrs. Kahane, Lawrence graduate student and wife of Associate Professor Howard Kahane, is one of the ten members of the Central Coordinating Committee of the North American Federation for Biafra.
Last year, with the cooperation of many political, religious and civic leaders. Mrs. Kahane helped focus American attention on Biafra.
"Senator Pearson has helped us considerably; he was one of the few senators who was making speeches in Congress prior to the conflict warning about possible tribal warfare in Nigeria. He has given us his support ever since," she said.
Not only has Pearson helped but so has Governor Robert Docking who proclaimed "The Kansas Month of Hope for the Children of Biafra/Nigeria" from Thanksgiving till Christmas last year. Many churches in the state also sold a Biafran Christmas card which was designed and produced by the Kansas Biafran committee.
"We were very proud of the support we received for both projects. Docking's proclamation was the first of its kind in the nation and it had a snowball effect on the governors of other states. I know that Governor Shafer of Pennsylvania proclaimed such a month this August," Mrs. Kahane said.
"The Christmas card we produced cost us $400. One Catholic church in Topeka raised over $1,000 alone on their sales of the cards. We started receiving inquiries about it from all over the nation," she said.
The Kansas group also started a nation-wide trend in making Biafra a non-partisan issue. The KU group enlisted the support of both the Collegiate Young Democrats and the Collegiate Young Republicans. This type of help has characterized the Biafran support across the nation and was patterned after the KU example.
Harold Eads, a Methodist minister formerly from Topeka, has also been very active in Biafra, said Mrs. Kahane. Sent to Africa originally on a Topeka Rotary Club scholarship, he became very active in setting up refugee villages in Biafra. At present, there are over 21,000 feeding and refugee centers crammed into what remains of the sessionist state. Eads is currently the minister at the Methodist East Harlem parish and helps coordinate American relief efforts for Biafra working from his New York City post.
Mrs. Kahane and the KU Biafran group will present a film made by Eads at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Kansas Union Room 101. Entitled "Biafra," it consists of interviews with Biafran soldiers, civilians and medical missionaries.
"One of the unusual aspects of the movie is that one of the interviews was conducted at a hospital during a Nigerian air raid. The film shows what the Nigerian air force did to the hospital," Mrs. Kahane said.
Another film, "Mercy Bridge to Biafra," shows the tense missions carried out by pilots in efforts to
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (UPI) Twenty-one college-bound blind students are on the University of California campus here for a special six-week program of orientation to college life.
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fly supplies to the isolated country. As of last week, according to the French Red Cross, 15 plane loads or about 180 tons of supplies were reaching the country each night. The French embassy said a state of "generalized famine" existed and estimated that 60,000 children and adults were dying weekly.
Mrs. Kahane said the group would discuss the adoption of a Biafran family and a trip to Kansas City to hear Chief of Radio Biafra, Clyrapian Ekwensi, who will appear at the University of Missouri at Kansas City Tuesday.
"I have been in personal contact with an Irish father at one of the missions and he proposed we adopt a family there. We think our packages will get through to
Interest in Biafra will probably increase as the rainy season ends in November. Mrs. Kahane said, the Biafrans are expecting the Nigerian "big push" to end the war as soon as the land dries. At present, the surrounded Biafran forces have little territory to fall back upon should a retreat be necessary.
"The sad thing is this country is fighting not only Nigerians but also Hungarians and East Germans. Until a few months ago, the MIG's used against the Blafarrs were flown by Egyptians but new MIG's have been introduced and the eastern Europeans have taken over the bombing and strafing raids. This information comes from the extremely reliable and impartial Clearing House Weekly. News" she said.
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