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"Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world."
"I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months."
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"The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed."
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