>>>>>>>>>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article4968918.ece
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>>>>>>>>Pretty old news there Tracy. I remember Biafra as a child when it was in the news. We did ourselves no credit there, but then no country has done a lot of good in Africa.
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>>>>>>>>Nick
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>>>>>>>Interesting. The article is dated Oct 19, 2008 which is today.
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>>>>>>Notice the
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>>>>>>May 12, 1968: Frederick Forsyth, at this time a freelance reporter, finds the breakaway region is now a charnel house
>>>>>>From the archive
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>>>>>I do now. Why would they reprint something from 1968?
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>>>>I think they often reprint archive material. Especially when the journalist went on to do something else.
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>>>>At the time I remember whenever I didn't eat my dinner my mother would say "Those poor Biafran orphans would love this" etc
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>>>I grew up hearing 'starving kids in China...' How times have changed...(although there are still many starving in China)
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>>I guess Biafra wasn't big news in the US. I think most people in the UK who where old enough to be aware of the news would remember it as it was very big news here. thats why I recognised it straight away.
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>I can't speak for the U.S., but it certainly was major news here in Canada.

I just checked with my mom (she was an adult at the time obviously, while I was not). I got the response that not only was it huge news, but also I received a lecture on why didn't I remember it? Hadn't we discussed it? I asked her how much she remembered from when she was 8... :o)