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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Katangese rebels who had fled to neighboring Angola in the mid-1960s and were now trying to regain their homeland. Everybody agreed that the Katangese had once fought for the Portuguese against the Angolan guerrilla armies but switched sides to the strongest of these groups, Agostinho Neto's Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, which later came to power. Even Castro conceded that throughout this period and until some time in early 1976, the Cubans in Angola had helped train and arm the Katangese because they were fighting with the Popular Movement against two rival liberation groups...
...days before Carter's press conference, Castro told his side of the story to a group of visiting American Congressmen and journalists; his account clashed with Carter's on a number of key points. Castro insisted that after the Popular Movement triumphed over its rivals in early 1976, the Cubans stopped helping the Katangese. He maintained that there had been no contact between them and his military or civilian personnel since that time...
...World War II. Though consistently the country's foremost protector of the Bill of Rights, the A.C.L.U. had acquired only 60,000 members by 1960. Its period of large growth came in the late '60s and early '70s, when civil rights and liberties became a popular cause and thousands of young people joined to help support Freedom Riders in the South and Viet Nam draft resisters. Says Neier: "We rode the crest of public concern." Now Neier and others feel that "the country is less concerned with individual rights. There is no dominant political issue, no sexy...
...Portuguese traders and Jesuit missionaries whose caravels found their way to Japan in the 16th century were known as nambanjin, or "southern barbarians." Naturally, the artists knew next to nothing of the habits of these white-faced extraterrestrials with their quaint, long spindly noses. Yet they became a popular motif on screens: gesturing from their ships, clumsy as grounded kites in their absurd pantaloons. They were to Japan what the willow-pattern Chinaman became to England...
...feel like making the trip to Chinatown, you can choose from among several excellent Chinese restaurants lining Mass Ave. For a varied menu, Joyce Chen in Central Square is the place; for Szechuan, try the popular Hunan (Central Square) or Yenching (opposite Widener library). The brunch buffet at the Yenching is excellent and inexpensive. With all these excellent Chinese restaurants on our minds, we forgot all about the Hong Kong; you should...