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10 GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, AUGUST, 29, 1968
Biafran Airlift
NEW YORK (NC) - Airlifts of i
relief supplies to Biafra are i
“carrying on” and there is a great
need for increased supplies,
Father Dermot Doran, C.S.Cp., i
Irish missionary to Nigeria, said j
here.
Father Doran, who is in the ;
United States reporting to ;
Catholic Relief Service officials <
regarding the situation in the :
Biafra-Nigeria conflict, opened a ]
press conference here with the
words: “I am here to arouse the
conscience of the world.”
A member of the Irish 1
Province of the Holy Ghost
Fathers, the priest has served in
Nigeria since 1962. In December,
1967, he became the first person
to organize a mercy airlift into
blockaded Biafra and has since
been aboard ten similar flights.
Known as the “blockade
busting missionary,” Father
Doran coordinates shipments of
CRS supplies from the U.S. and
supplies from welfare agencies of
all denominations in other areas
of the world from Lisbon to Sao
Tome, the Portuguese island off
the West Coast of Africa, from
where supplies are flown into
Biafra on airlifts under the
auspices of Caritas, international
Catholic charities organization.
He is considered the main link in
channeling aid from Lisbon into
stricken areas.
THE MISSIONARY said he is
here also to explore new channels
to increase aid into Biafra and to
dispel belief that all supplies are
now suspended because of the
blockade. There was a holdup for
only two nights due to bad
weather and anti-aircraft activity,
he said. “But they are carrying
on. Airlifts of relief supplies have
continued and are continuing
nightly from Lisbon and Sao
Tome, contrary to other reports,
and on Sao Tome there is no
stockpiling of relief supplies but
rather a great need for larger
quantities,” he explained.
Father Doran stated that
although “200 tons of high
protein foods was estimated as
the daily requirement to meet the
crisis two months ago, the
minimum must now be doubled
as Kwashiorkor, the disease
caused by malnutrition, is now
rapidly spreading to the 7-11 age
group.”
Asked to comment on reports
in the press of the number of
dead, he said it was safe to
estimate death figures of 6,000
per week, mostly children up to
age 7. On further questioning he
told of taking his own poll in one
area by counting in a 25-minute
walk around one area 250 dead.
At the conclusion of the
conference Bishop Edward E.
Swanstrom, executive director of
CRS, said:
“IN RESPONSE' to the grave
needs in Biafra which Father
Doran has described, and in light
of his reconfirmation of the fact
that relief supplies continue
without interruption to be flown
into Biafra, CRS will continue its
airlifts to the island of Sao Tome
for the emergency. We are also at
present negotiating to increase
airlift of CRS supplies from
Lisbon directly into Biafra. In the
meantime, the organization will
dispatch an ocean shipment of
; about 500 tons of relief supplies
from New York on the S.S.
African Crescent on or about
Sept. 3 in the hope that new and
adequate mercy corridors will
have opened up by that time to
permit us to provide the supplies
necessary to alleviate the crisis.
Cooperating with CRS in this
Shipment are the U.S. Agency for
International Development,
UNICEF, the Catholic Medical
Mission Board, World Medical
Relief, and other contributing
agencies and individuals.”
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Carrying On
Vatican Official
Is Critical Of
Intercommunion
VATICAN CITY (RNS) -
Roman Catholics who engage in
intercommunion were criticized
by Father Carlo Boyer, S.J., a
member of the Vatican
Secretariat for Christian Unity, in
an article published here.
Father Boyer’s article was given
a prominent position in
L’Osservatore Romano, Vatican
City daily newspaper. While it
was not in the section of the
paper customarily devoted to
official statements, the article
echoed remarks by other Church
officials and seemed to have been
intended as an authorative
statement.
It dealt chiefly with a group
of sixty persons, including some
Catholics, who conducted a
Eucharistic service with
intercommunion in Paris during
the recent student revolt and
with Catholics who reportedly
took Communion at a Protestant
service during the Fourth General
Assembly of the World Council
A YOUNG mother holds her child nearly dead of starvation, of Churches in Uppsala, Sweden.
Hundreds of children and adults are reportedly dying of malnutrition
each day in the secessionist state of Biafra as a result of the war with The group in Paris “knew,
Nigeria. Church leaders of all faiths have joined with international especially the Catholics, that
relief agencies to fly food and medicine through the Nigerian their Church prohibited such an
blockade to the refugees. (RNS) act,” Father Boyer said.
As a result of contributions
from individuals and federations
to CRS, 110 tons of food and
medicine have already been
distributed in Biafra. On the high
seas scheduled to arrive in Sao
Tome soon is a shipment of 277
tons. Total flights under the
auspices of Caritas from Lisbon
and Sao Tome to Biafra since
Feb. 6 have numbered 56,
carrying 600 tons of supplies.
6 Jubilee 9 Sold
To Magazine
CHICAGO (RNS) - Jubilee,
the national Roman Catholic
monthly magazine purchased a
year ago by the book publisher,
Herder and Herder, has been sold
to U.S. Catholic, a monthly
published by the Claretian
Fathers here.
Beginning with the October
1968 issue, the two national
Catholic magazines will be
merged, according to the
announcement by Father Robert
J. Leuver, C.M.F., editor of U.S.
Catholic, and Frank Schworer,
president of Herder and Herder.
A spokesman for U.S.
Catholic said that the combined
magazine will be known as U.S.
Catholic and Jubilee. It will be
edited by the U.S. Catholic’s
current staff and published here.
VOTE SEPTEMBER 11 / DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
ELECT SIDNEY J. MARCUS
State Representative, District 105
“OUI^
NEIGHBORHOOD
NEEDS A VOTE”
MARCUS
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CHURCH
335 Ivy St, N.E.
Downtown Atlanta
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& 6 p.m.
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(Except Saturday)
Father John J. Mulroy
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RE-ELECT
JIM ALMAND
DeKalb County Commissioner District No. 1
Will continue the leadership that's made
DeKalb Georgia's most progressive county.
Will continue to work with the Board of
Education to further develop our school
system and DeKalb College.
Will work to establish offices for each
commissioner in his district as a conven
ience to the people.
A Man For All DeKalb
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