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Special Forces. More than 2,000 Cubans are on loan to African nations other than Angola. Troops provided by Havana form part of President Sékou Touré's bodyguard in Guinea. Cuban bureaucrats supervise government operations in both Equatorial Guinea and Somalia. In Tanzania, 500 Cubans are reportedly training guerrillas to harass the Rhodesian government. In the Congo (Brazzaville), 150 others form a rear echelon for Angola; in Guinea-Bissau, says a grateful government spokesman, "they showed us how to make the terrain work for us and against the Portuguese...
...BODYGUARD OF LIES by ANTHONY CAVE BROWN 947 pages. Harper...
...approached a Greensboro, N.C., freelance writer named Patrick O'Keefe and told him that he knew where to find the body of missing former Teamsters Union President James Hoffa. Medlin, a sinister-looking self-professed former hit man, said he had once served as Hoffa's bodyguard and had learned of his old boss's final resting place from the hired killer who put him there...
...landslide election to a $400-per-week job as the local's director of organizers. Meanwhile, his father fired a few parting shots in the December issue of Playboy, which had interviewed him before he vanished on July 30. "The only guy who needs a bodyguard is a liar, a cheat, a guy who betrays friendship," Jimmy told Playboy's reporter. "Never was afraid in my life and don't intend to start tomorrow. Who's gonna bother...
...from exile last December, he has reduced the force, and continues his prelate's practice of permitting any member of a crowd to kiss his hand-while nervous security men look on. "He puts more faith in God for his protection than in men," says one resigned senior bodyguard. "And so far his survival record has proved him right...