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Ceremony & Grand Cru. Humphrey arrived on the Continent in the same week that the last American flags were lowered at Rocquencourt, the NATO headquarters outside Paris on which French President Charles de Gaulle had posted an April 1 eviction notice. Simultaneously in Geneva, the Kennedy Round of tariff talks between...
Near by in Geneva's Palais des Nations, where Soviet and American disarmament negotiators have been trying for six years to forge a nuclear non-proliferation pact, European concern was focused on the possibility that such a treaty could forever foreclose the Continent's option of becoming an...
Africa Addio may well be the only movie ever to get a review from the United Nations. On behalf of five African U.N. delegates who had asked that its showing be suspended, U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg wrote to the New York Times complaining that this Italian-made documentary about the...
Critic Goldberg may have a point. Africa Addio is a lengthy rape scene in which the predators are the continent's white and black citizens and the victim is Africa itself. Film Makers Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi (Mondo Cane) have assembled a grand guignol of atrocity scenes, strung...
The gory footage of Africa Addio is clearly genuine, and it is hard to deny the film's message: that much of the Dark Continent today is beset by violence and turmoil. But with a careful selection of film clips, an adroit director could make most parts of the...