Word: congo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went on: "The Russian tactics in Africa are like the tactics of a parrot climbing a tree. First came Angola, then Congo Brazzaville, then Ethiopia, and afterward the Sahara. Step by step. If they get the Sahara, the Russians will have a window on the Atlantic, as they have always wanted, and the key to the Mediterranean. The American Sixth Fleet will have to sail back home and leave these seas to the Russian fleets...
...surplus of ivory coming out of the Congo prompted the Belgian government to offer the material free to sculptors. Many accepted, and the ivory statuette soon stood tall in the art deco movement. Isadora Duncan by Alberto Savinio (Franco Maria Ricci; 184 pages; $125) shows just how exquisite some of these miniature sculptures became. All works pictured here were inspired, in one way or another, by the blithe spirit of American Dancer Isadora Duncan. Artists like Demeter Chiparus and Friederich Preiss, whose names are familiar today only to collectors, shaped ivory as if it were butter; the dancing figures they...
...most sensitive--and later embarrassing--covert operations. As chief of the clandestine operations division in the '50s, as a Deputy Director in the early '60s, and finally, from 1966 to 1973, as head of the CIA, Helms' efforts spanned the globe--from Chile to Cuba to the Congo to Southeast Asia to Italy and Eastern Europe, and always, always, to the USSR: anticommunism is the lifeblood of the CIA. In 1977 Helms explained what had worried him most as CIA director--not fighting secret wars, not overturning free elections, not the press, not Watergate, but..."The CIA is the only...
...other reason why I had come to Africa, instead of to another southern continent, was that on the contrary, it was not a clean slate, not neutral ground. The myth of blackness, darkness, this 'land of sorrow,' might be a sounding board. 'Before the Congo I was just a mere animal,' Joseph Conrad said...
...Hunter, in any case, are only the beginning. Still to come is Francis Ford Coppola's long delayed $35 million Apocalypse Now, opening in August. Coppola has based the film on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Dark ness, translating the tale of savagery and evil from the Congo to Viet Nam. There, Marlon Brando, playing the Mr. Kurtz character, is a renegade Army colonel who has taken over a remote province and set up his own war against the Communists. Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent to assassinate the rebellious Kurtz. The movie is already 1½ years...