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Among others, he became the head of ordinance charged with the responsibility to register and record movement of arms and other military equipment, setting up deadletter boxes, identifying infiltration routes in the frontline states, and deploying combatants when necessary.
ANC Today 2008
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Among others, he became the head of ordinance charged with the responsibility to register and record movement of arms and other military equipment, setting up deadletter boxes, identifying infiltration routes in the frontline states, and deploying combatants when necessary.
ANC Today 2008
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And now a new wave of British writers has come along to clear the deadletter drops and make the brush passes, colleagues like Charles Cumming, Jeremy Duns and Chris Morgan Jones.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Jon Stock 2011
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