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These payments aid Portugal, either directly or indirectly, in its war against the liberation forces of Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau. It is doubtful whether a dying colonialist power such as Portugal could afford to equip and transport 140,000 troops to fight a war in Africa which has gone on intermittently for the last 11 years without the flow of money from outside sources, such as Gulf...
...conventional warfare. The U.S. has provided ARVN with 640,000 M-16 rifles, 34,000 M-79 grenade launchers, 40,000 radios, 20,000 quarter-ton trucks and 56 M48 tanks. The air force has 200 A1, A-37 and F-5 fighters, 30 AC-47 gunships and 600 transport, training and reconnaissance aircraft. Despite such impressive figures, the Vietnamese are not as well equipped as the G.I.s they replaced. While ARVN has only 500 helicopters, for instance, the U.S. fighting force had more than...
...Friends of Eddie Coyle is about smalltime hoods in Boston, the dregs of the underworld, guys who buy and sell guns, transport stolen goods, occasionally carry out a contract for the higher-ups in Providence. These hoods survive through a difficult series of accommodations with the law and the code of the organization. Betrayal is a way of life for these men--it's how they stay out of jail, keep the law happy. But if they're caught, the underworld shows no mercy...
...Catholics on either side of the border: better jobs, better houses, and a better future for their children. Distinctions of name, address and occupation in Ulster are subtle but vicious. Belfast's Shankill Road is definitely Protestant, the Falls Road just as definitely Catholic. Protestants dominate the police, transport and public service; bartenders and bookies' clerks are usually Catholic. Employers shy away from mixing men of different religions. "I don't mind personally," goes the usual explanation, "but there'd be trouble on the shop floor...
...ENGLAND old-age pensioners--OAPs-- get all kinds of benefits in addition to their rather meager pensions. During non-rush hours they can ride public transport at half-fare, every day of the week they can take free baths (with soap and one towel provided) at public bathhouses, and before four o'clock they get reduced prices at cinemas. Each pensioner gets a little card to use when he buys fuel in the winter, paying a special cut price to the government which owns all utilities...