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Sally Goatcher, a British nurse captured and held prisoner in Biafra
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Sally Goatcher, a British nurse captured and held prisoner in Biafra

United Press International · June 17, 1969

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Sally Goatcher (C), 28, a British nurse captured and held prisoner for two weeks in Biafra, is reunited with her parents in London 6/17. Miss Goatcher, a Red Cross nurse who had been working for the Save the Children Fund in Nigeria, accidently strayed into Biafra while lost on a sideroad and was charged with spying. She voiced no complaints about her treatment by the Biafrans.

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