Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...huge supplies of Russian arms continue to pour into Luanda, the M.P.L.A. admitted that 1,200 Cuban combat troops had arrived. They will reinforce an estimated 1,000 soldiers and 700 advisers Cuba had previously sent to Neto. The M.P.L.A.'S main problem, reports Griggs, seems to be poor tactics and troop discipline. Cuban advisers assigned to the southern front complain that they have been stranded in unfamiliar territory when M.P.L.A. units broke and ran under fire...
Scholarly and thorough as it is, Lewis's biography is often frustrating to read. While dozens of American and European literary notables troop through its pages, relatively few exhibit the vitality of Wharton's own characters. There are important exceptions, of course, like Lewis's portrait of Wharton's friend and mentor Henry James, who felt during her visits that he was "being seized and carried off in the talons of some monstrous female bird of prey." But, in general, Lewis spends too much time chronicling in remorseless detail the comings and goings of the Wharton set, obscuring his very...
...Tahitian product that would blow the bow off the Bounty. For added flavoring, rival chili heads stirred in dried armadilla blood, tequila, beer and, it was reported, marijuana. Singer Kathryn Grayson's "All-American chili" incorporated meatballs, Italian-style. The ingredients used by Girl Scout Troop 256 from Odessa, Texas, were "tender love and affection and a pinch of paprika...
...June 1968 he was shipped to Viet Nam, where he served with the 4th Marine Regiment of the 3rd Marine Division. He learned to watch for tiny hints of enemy troop movement while on perimeter patrol at Khe Sanh, a lesson in alertness that may have paid its dividends last week in San Francisco. In December 1968 Sipple fought in "Operation Scotland II," a campaign against the North Vietnamese, and was medically evacuated. "I took some shrapnel," he says. "I was a pretty screwed-up guy both physically and mentally. I learned war is no John Wayne movie." Sipple spent...
...country's capital. As head of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo), Machel, a onetime hospital orderly, helped lead the bloody ten-year struggle that brought over 400 years of Portuguese domination to an end. Simbine formerly worked as an underground Frelimo agent, spying on Portuguese troop movements and military strength...