BOMB THREAT DELAYS RELIEF

ASWEDISH Transair DC-7B chartered by the West German relief organisation,. Caritas, for Biafra this week was delayed for more than two hours by a bomb threat.
After a thorough search the plane was allowed to fly out.
Another Transair plane was used last week to deliver 18 tons of food and medicine into Biafra. It eluded Nigerian radar and anti-aircraft guns.
A 10-man West German Red Cross team for Biafra flew to Lagos on Saturday and set out immediately for Nigeria's breakaway state, a Red Cross spokesman said in Bonn.
The team. which includes a doctor, will drive to Biafra 10 trucks of foodstuffs and medical supplies the West German Red Cross shipped to Lagos earlier this month.
Transair, which has also agreed to fly supplies for West German and Dutch relief agencies, will have about three flights a week running between Europe and the Portuguese island of Sao Tome. .
The Danish Church Emergency Relief Office has also announced it is sending in 10 tons of aid.
Relief supplies being shipped by overseas relief agencies are getting through to the starving people in Biafra, Catholic Relief Services headquarters in New York has been assured.
The information came in a cable from Fr. Anthony Byrne, C.S.Sp., who is directing the Caritas Internationalis relief work for Biafra and coordinating the effort of Catholic Relief Services (CRS).
Fr. Byrne stressed that there is no extensive stockpiling of relief supplies at Sao Tome and assured that supplies are being flown from the island to Biafra as speedily as possible.