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...Zaire's capital, aboard C-141s belonging to the U.S. Air Force (which billed the CIA for $80,000 for each 25-ton delivery). The supplies were then reshipped to Angolan bases aboard C-130s belonging to Zaire and South Africa. The guerrillas were so careless with the unfamiliar equipment that the CIA decided to dispatch paramilitary experts-officially described as intelligence gatherers-to help them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Our War in Angola | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...writing on this page looks unfamiliar, that's because our regular rock columnist, Richie the "W," is on vacation in sunny West Palm Beach, recuperating from a recent attack of thesitis. Word from down South is that he's getting better, and will be back as soon as his typing fingers heal. Hopefully by May 4, because that's when the loveable, pigeon-toed Elvis Costello hits town along with Nick Lowe and Mink DeVille, a combination more delectable than the Kong's #7 platter...

Author: By Laura J. Levine, | Title: No Moped Jokes This Week | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

From there it was up, up, and away, as the Crimson overpowered its last three opponents. Playing on unfamiliar clay courts, the women made Davidson College their second victim. Martha Roberts and Meyer lost on top, but the middle of the ladder came through again, and Harvard swept the doubles for a 10-2 triumph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ... While Racquetwomen Go 4-2 On Cruise Through Carolina | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

James P. Costello, general agent for the Carpenters District Council of Boston and Vicinity and spokesman for Local 40, said yesterday re-classification of union members threatens their job security and makes them uncomfortable, working in unfamiliar trades...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff and George K. Sweetnam, S | Title: University Maintenance Workers Vote To Begin Wildcat Strike Action Today | 3/21/1978 | See Source »

...book's mechanical sex might be dismissed except for a hint that Jones intended to connect that copulation with some theory of war. His only attempt to say anything unfamiliar about combat comes in a rumination assigned to Landers. Brooding over how he and his fellow soldiers, so close in battle, have split apart in Luxor, Landers reflects: "It was funny but in each case it was a woman who had pulled them away. Females. ... Had split the common male interest. C- had broken the centripetal intensity of the hermetic force which sealed them together in so incestuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: G.I. Wounded | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

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