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Neto faces his biggest threat in the south, where Savimbi commands an effective force of 5,000 men. Still a hero to the area's dominant Ovimbundu people, the bearded, beret-wearing UNITA leader completed a 500-mile trek through the south-on foot-urging his tribal brothers to resist the Luanda government. Rallying to his cause, the Ovimbundu have set up underground cells throughout southern Angola...
...conflict but the War of Jenkins' Ear will be playing at the neighborhoods. Leading the attack is Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola's epic about the Viet Nam War itself. Loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse is about a mad Green Beret commander, played by Marlon Brando, who wages his own war in a remote Vietnamese province. Shooting in the jungles of the Philippines has been rather hellish for the cast-which also includes Robert Duvall and Martin Sheen. Most have had a bout or two with dysentery, and many scenes have...
...problem, however, proved obdurate: Brando's weight. Instead of looking like a Green Beret commander, trim and tough, Brando, who was paid $2 million, panted through the paddies like Sidney Greenstreet vainly looking for the way to Rick's Bar. Coppola's solution was to film only Brando's face and hands in closeup and to use a suitably slim, 6-ft. 5-in. double for long shots. Even Coppola's inventiveness had no remedies, however, for the two typhoons that ripped up his sets...
...Ever watch those old movies?" asks Stony Browder Jr., 28. "Bogart, Garfield -they believed in things. There was music when they walked." Stony, resplendent in bow tie, watch chain and beret, writes Savannah's music. He admits it takes him two hours to press the crease in his pants, coordinate his colors and get his chains together. His pal, "SugarCoated" Andy Hernandez, 26, nods. "A lot of people think we dress like this only for performances," says Sugar-Coated, who plays vibes. In the '60s, he explains, society drifted further and further away from his dreams...
...hundred miles to the west in Salisbury, Rhodesia's pleasant, tree-lined capital, a "troopie" wearing the black beret of Prime Minister Ian Smith's security forces looked up from his post on downtown Jameson Avenue as the season's first dark rain clouds came scudding over the rooftops. "Damn," he said, scowling to his partner. "I was hoping it would hold off a bit longer. The 'terrs' [white Rhodesians' shorthand for terrorists] will be tougher than ever in the rains this year...