Dan Jacobs (1)

"Mr. Jacobs, a former speechwriter for Hubert Humphrey and other public figures, worked in 1968 as a consultant and spokesman for UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, one of many relief agencies that found themselves frustrated time and again in their efforts to get supplies to Biafra. He finally quit his job in the firm belief that U Thant, then Secretary General of the United Nations, was obstructing aid. Mr. Jacobs subsequently became director of a group called the Committee for Nigeria-Biafra Relief, which tried unsuccessfully to get a relief effort started that would ferry supplies by helicopter from aircraft carriers off the Nigerian coast." -NY Times