■ Paying for the War: Oil revenues will this year allow the Federal Govern ment to" undertake record expenditure without significantly increasing taxes; ■ Roundabout Paris: The headless Chicken: France, in this bizarre interim period this epilogue to the de Gaulle drama is full of contradiction not least the contradiction arising from the constitutional ■ In Memoriam: Native Authority: The second of two articles on the administrative reform in the new Northern States of Nigeria which are leading to sweeping changes in the Native Authority ■ Books and publications: The psychology of empire: Africa in English fiction, 1874-1939 by G. D. Killam ■ Commercial news: Agricultural output drops: Agricultural production per caput in most West African countries fell in 1968 according to a review ■ Commercial news: Exchange sweetener: For the first time ever, the Nigerian sugar company made a net profit last year. £N̈12,650 ■ Dateline Africa: Guinea: Thirteen sentenced to death: After transforming itself into a special revolutionary court from May 11 to 15 the National Revolutionary council of the ruling PDG