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Welfare Units' Conflicts Slow Food For AfricaLAGOS, Nigeria (AP) —• Relief officials fear that confusion and conflict among welfare groups will seriously hamper the multimillion-dollar effort to save the millions facing starva-4tion because of Nigeria’s civil war.% * •“Organizational problems are as massive as the need in Nigeria,** said one foreign relief official.t5 ■Tons of food fill scarce Lagos warehouse space because transportation is unavailable to get it to those who need it.“There are just too: many people who want to run this,” said Timothy Udondek, executive secretary of the Nigerian Red Cross.The U.S. government has contributed nearly $2,8 million worth of food. Britain has prom-fised at least $600,000. Other eon-* - *tributions range from a Dutchmedical team to promised aidfrom the Soviet Red Cross.Under the umbrella of the Nigerian Red Cross and the International Committee of the/Red Cross, such voluntary organizations as the American Catholic Relief Service, Brittain’s Oxfam and the Save the6Children Fund are providing help.Relief experts believe at least 200,000 persons in the Nigerianwar zone need immediate*' aid.%Reports from Biafra claim thousands are dying of starvation’.The Rev. Patrick Devine of« •the Catholic Caritas International was quoted by Biafra radio as saying 300 tons of supplies are needed daily in the east Nigeria territory which seceded,but only 10 tons a day are arriving by plane*at improvised highway airstrips.Material entering Nigeria could reach the Biafrans only if the secessionists abandon their reluctance to accept aid through a mercy corridor offered by federal forces who surround Biafra;All but 2,000 of 45,000 cartons of American powdered milk delivered in June have remained in the warehouse.
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Thu, Jul 18, 1968
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