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Cuba forces in Angola gave a real shot in the arm to the liberation movements, and it also was a lesson to the white South Africans that the end is coming. They can't just hope to subdue the continent on racist grounds.

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Noam Chomsky
Age: 95
Born: 1928
Born: December 7
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