AP Task Force 70 News Series Completed Biafran War Near
AP Task Force 70 News Series Completed SEE STORY BELOW Snowy, Cold light snow continuing until THEDAILY tonight. Clearing and cold FINAL then. Cloudy tomorrow. Red Bank, Freehold Long Branch (St. Detain, pat* 3) J EDITION Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 137 BED BANK, N. J., MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1970 20 PAGES 10 CENTS •nuuuiiiiiiwiiuiiiiuiiiuuiiuiiiiuiiiniNJwiiiiuiwuiHuiiiuiiiiBUiiigiiiuuiiiiiiuiiuuiniiuiwtii Mitiua Biafran War Near End By MORT ROSKNBLUM trucks for convoys, and engineers to help repair roads, LAGOS (AP) — Britain and tho United States readied a bridges and airfields. massive relief airlift to Biafra today as Nigerian forces PLANES STAND BY pressed close to victory OVLT the secessionist state, President Nixon ordered eight C130 cargo planes on a Biafra's leader, Gen. C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, left the standby alert in the United States, with four helicopters country, saying in a prerecorded radio address that he was to be carried as cargo. They awaited word from Lagos going in search of peace and that he hoped to return soon. that the Nigerian.government would let them operate a Reliable reports said he had taken his family witii him. relief lift. The capture of Uli airstrip, Biafra's only link to the out- Canadian Foreign Minister Mitchell Siiarpe said his side world, appeared imminent as Nigerian bombers kept government also was making plans to provide transport, up their onslaught and federal troops and artillery pushed food, medical supplies and military observers to help toward it. Joint Church Aid, the European Protestant- achieve a just settlement. Roman Catholic relief organization, said it suspended its Hard fighting continued in the southeast corner of the flight to Uli yesterday because unloading personnel had former British colony as Biafran regulars resisted the prog- fled.
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