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Reports that the Nigerian government has clamped down on the country's press, closing down two leading publications and arresting their editors. Details of the incidents; Acts of intimidation against members of the press; Attacks against the press claimed to have been ordered by Nigerian leader General Sani Abacha.

Reports on a fact finding mission by a delegation of Black newspaper executives and writers lead by National Newspaper Publishers Association president Dorothy Leavell to Nigeria, on the invitation of the Nigerian Foreign Minister Tom Ikimi. Purpose of the visit; Reports on Nigeria by the white press.