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...armed struggle is being carried on by survivors of liberation movements that fought Neto's M.P.L.A. in the bloody, mammoth civil war: Holden Roberto's National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.), Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and FLEC, a Zaire-supported front that seeks independence from Angola for the oil-rich northern enclave of Cabinda. Despite the continuing presence in Angola of at least 13,000 elite Cuban troops, which supplement his own Soviet-supplied army of 20,000, Neto concedes that "the defense of the country...
Despite the presence of mammoth MIT center Diane Ozelius, her team's leading scorer, the Crimson overwhelmingly outrebounded the Engineers at both ends of the court and outshot them by a large margin...
...time of year is watching people take exams. The best ones to watch are those in which the participants face real strain, such as exams in pre-med courses. This year, the season will be starting early, with Chemistry 170, "Bio-organic Chemistry' kicking off on January 18, with mammoth six-hour extravaganza...
Califano helped to dream up such Johnsonian innovations as the Model Cities program and the Office of Economic Opportunity. He also ran interference for Johnson in the 1966 creation of the Department of Transportation, a mammoth reorganization achieved in only eight months. One colleague recalls him, not entirely kindly, as "an empire builder who had a kind of abstract concern for the disadvantaged...
...heavily outgunned on the battlefield. For one thing, NATO would be on the defensive, thus requiring significantly fewer troops than an attacker. NATO also benefits from advanced technology. Comparison of NATO and Warsaw Pact tanks serves as a good example of NATO'S superior equipment: although the mammoth Soviet T-62 is heavier than its Western rivals-the U.S.'s M60, Britain's Chieftain and West Germany's Leopard-it is less accurate, slower, and sports a vulnerably exposed rear fuel tank. The West also leads in developing precision-guided munitions (the so-called smart weapons...