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...colossal footprint in the mire. Fifteen thousand Cubans remain in Angola because the U.S. will take no initiative in pressing the Soviet Union for them to leave. And even America's left has been essentially indifferent to the real issue of African liberation throughout the anti-colonial struggle. Bereft of constructive ideas, and unwilling to organize on behalf of pressing for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Angolan soil, they rejoice in the whiplash of the other superpower's totalitarianism, reckoning that a Soviet stooge is by definition more progressive than an American stooge. Implied in their stance...
There was more to Precious, of course, than vaps. The rodent was an emblem of a lifestyle, a get-married, settle-down, buy-a-house routine that seemingly afflicted everyone in Danvers as soon as high school closed its doors on them. Bereft of such designs, I had difficulty relating to people who would want the beast yapping underfoot...
...States with his third wife-was offered a professorship at the City College of New York. The case against Russell's appointment was tried-and won -in the state supreme court, where the prosecution argued that Russell was "lecherous, libidinous, lustful, venerous, erotomaniac, aphrodisiac, irreverent, narrow-minded, and bereft of moral fiber...
Fantini's and Berman's election bring the balance of reform and moderate members to 3-3. Veteran observers of the city political scene have commented that the campaign, loaded down with popular candidates but bereft of issues or significant debate, offered few surprises...
Underground party members in Spain were bereft of central command during the long exile, necessitating local and regional decision-making. The growth of illegal workers' commissions, dominated by party members over the last fifteen years, confirms the trend. These factory-based councils have ties to the PCE but possess limitless autonomy. Laborers set up the commissions to defend their wage-and-hour interests in a way that the Francoist Sindicacio Nacional does not. The councils have no set programs, no dues and no distinctions are made between members and non-members. The activist membership which the commissions channel into...