Abie Nathan, Israel’s “peace pilot” who has been active in relief for the stricken secessionist province of Biafra in Nigeria, is in Holland organizing the shipment Dec. 20 of a Christmas cargo of food and drugs that will be sent by ship to Biafra via the island of Sao Tome.
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