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...friend, he took off from Munich's Riem Airport in a rented Bell JetRanger helicopter. Avoiding radar detection by sometimes flying as close as 3 ft. to the ground, he crossed the West German border, passed through neutral Austria and at 150 m.p.h. whipped across the Czech frontier near the Moldau reservoir, a sparsely populated wooded vacation area. As before, he was supposed to set down in a meadow, pick up his four passengers-East Germans like all the others-and within seconds be on his way home...
...plan went awry. The refugees-a middle-aged couple, their daughter and an unrelated male university student-were waiting in the wrong spot. Before they reached Meeker's helicopter, Czech sharpshooters had them in their sights. The two male refugees scrambled inside, but when the girl was 30 ft. from the aircraft, she suddenly stumbled and her leg spouted blood...
...Marxist-oriented Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), the F.N.L.A.'s chief rival, commands 23,000 regulars and perhaps 10,000 armed civilians, who have been dubbed "Street Soviets" by other movements. The M.P.L.A. has reinforced its strength with Soviet and Czech arms. Headed by Agostinho Neto, 52, the M.P.L.A. draws most of its support in the cities and from the Kimbundu tribe of north-central Angola...
...also some help from outside. Party Chief Cunhal enjoyed close links with Moscow and Prague, where he spent nearly 14 years in exile. He even supported the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia-the only West European party leader to do so. Jan Sejna, a onetime major general in the Czech army who defected in 1968 and is now in Washington, has testified that in an average year, Moscow supplied $820,000 for the Portuguese Communists and rebels in the African colonies. There were other forms of assistance: under orders from the Soviets, Czech Communists printed newspapers and pamphlets...
Ironically, today, when Czech intellectuals continue to see no way to insure national survival other than by making a significant contribution to world culture, most people at Harvard are ignorant of, or indifferent to the efforts of these people in "this faraway country of which we know nothing...