Word: lierop
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...teach-in also featured a slide-show presentation by Robert Van Lierop, a black American who recently returned from travelling with liberation forces in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique...
...Lierop compared the Portuguese a colonial efforts in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea to the American tactics in Southeast Asia. He cited the Portuguese reliance on air war, the used of napalm and anti-personnel bombs, and the use of helicopters in search-and-destroy operations...
...Portuguese commander in Mozambique is a friend of American General William Westmoreland," who formerly headed the U.S. Vietnam effort, Van Lierop said, "Like Westmoreland, he is always speaking of the light at the end of the tunnel...