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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.” UnAuncuice in ail iti Ivutui! d'6. written, we wnite it Sutter & Mdel Ian 1422 RHODES HAVERTY BLDG JAckson 5->2086 WHIM INSUKANOK It A PROFESSION ftOT. AT IIBIUM 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 SACRED HEART CHURCH 335 Ivy St, N.E. Downtown Atlanta SUNDAY MASSES Midnight (Folk Mass) 7:30,9, 10:30, Noon & 6 p.m. WEEKDAYS 7 a.m., 12:10 p.m., 5:30 p.m. (Except Saturday) Father John J. Mulroy Pastor 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 "HE GETS THINGS DONE”
