Word: afrika
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Principe, a Democratic Republic that was once a Portuguese colony. There are Cuban engineering teams all over the continent. In Angola, nearly 800 Cuban teachers are running makeshift schools under the impressive banner of "The Che Guevara Internationalist Pedagogical Detachment." More Peace Corps than Afrika Korps, most of the teachers are barely out of secondary school themselves. Their average age is 19, and they are paid just 30 pesos (about $40) a month...
...James Barker, chairman of the Moore-McCormack Lines and head of the National Maritime Council, is livid. "In effect, the Soviets are dumping by their price cutting, while there is no serious coordinated policy in Washington," he charges. Managing Director Carl-Thomas Hubrich of the Deutsche Afrika-Linien in Hamburg laments: "We're still there, but our backs are to the wall...
...political threats, Western governments have created special units to combat guerrillas and, if possible, rescue their terrified victims. The senior service in the war against terrorism is Britain's 900-man Special Air Service Regiment. Founded in Libya in 1942 to penetrate the lines of Rommel's Afrika Korps, the S. A.S. has battled Communist guerrillas in Malaya, Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya, and I.R.A. gunmen in South Armagh. Probably the most seasoned commando force is Israel's General Intelligence and Reconnaissance Unit 269; its accomplishments include the 1972 rescue, at Lod Airport in Tel Aviv...
...sure, there is a profitable U.S. trade in Nazi artifacts-Afrika Korps caps, helmets, Adolf Hitler posters, swastika-emblazoned daggers and flags. Old military uniforms and insignia-including Nazi versions-have been snapped up by various nostalgia collectors who may have no particular ideological axes to grind. Motorcycle gangs, too, have often embraced Hitlerian helmets and swastikas. All such artifacts are readily available through mail-order import houses, as well as some gun and specialty shops, and the catalogues are advertised in various gun and hunting magazines. Porn paperbacks like Gestapo Prison Brothel and Bitch of Buchenwald have their avid...
...Alamein in North Africa that Montgomery became a national hero, and the controversy over his talents began. Leading the battered British Eighth Army, Montgomery pushed the Afrika Korps of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the vaunted "Desert Fox," out of Egypt and into full retreat to Tunisia-where the Germans ran into Eisenhower's North African forces. El Alamein sent the British into ecstasy. "Before it," said Winston Churchill of the famous battle, "there were no victories; after it, there were no defeats...