Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compelling vision, but Wood's own circumstances were by now all too familiar...
...March 11 Ed went to a phone booth on the Garden State Parkway. It rang and Jim's now familiar voice told him to look under the shelf of a nearby phone, where he found written instructions. He was to stuff his documents into a used milk container and make the drop at the base of a telephone pole on Fulner Street in South Amboy. Waiting for him there was a red coffee can containing $3,000, which brought his total payoff to $16,000. The can also held another message: "By the way, have you paid attention...
...Harvard Class of '53 began drifting into the old alma mater yesterday morning looking for familiar faces and mulling over forgotten names. The classmates and their wives, $325 poorer, arrived to register at the Freshman Union where children were bundled off into age groups--the blue, orange, red or green divisions, which program special children's activities...
...that story is familiar: Cuban troops with Soviet aid helped the MPLA repel the invasions, and stayed in Angola to prevent further incursions by Zaire and South Africa. But Mobutu continues to aid the FNLA, which occasionally conducts raids into Angola. That is the real reason Angola has a sympathetic attitude towards the Katangan rebels--the Katangans serve as a diversion force, a counter to Mobutu's designs through FNLA on Angola...
THIS IS A very familiar tack for the United States. Previous administrations backed Portugal in its colonial oppression of Angola. Under then-President Gerald R. Ford, the CIA spent over $30 million supporting the FNLA and UNITA, as well as Zaire's and South Africa's attempts to get control in Angola. And as long as the United States persists in viewing southern Africa in terms of "responding" to Soviet participation there, we shall always be on the wrong side...