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...Microsoft still have close relationships with Big Blue, there is little love lost between IBM and its potent progeny. IBM had an ugly falling-out with former partner Microsoft over the future of personal-computer software. Microsoft developed the now famous disk operating system for the IBM-PC -- called DOS -- and later created the operating software for the next generation of IBM personal computers, the Personal System/2. When PS/2 and its operating system, OS/2, failed to catch on, a feud erupted over how the two companies would upgrade the system. Although they publicly patched things up, the partnership was tattered...
...having failed to insist on the disarmament of the UNITA rebel movement in Angola before U.N.-organized elections were held last September to end that country's 16-year civil war. As a result, UNITA head Jonas Savimbi reacted to his first-round election loss to President Jose Eduardo dos Santos by renewing the fighting...
Gates owns $6.7 billion in Microsoft stock and receives royalties on all computers sold using his MS-DOS operating system, the first such system developed for IBM back...
...another incident last September, Antonio Batista de Macedo, who has been organizing Indians and rural workers into cooperatives and trade unions in western Acre, escaped death only when an assassin's gun failed to fire. Last December, Joao Bosco dos Santos Freire, who had been mobilizing rubber tappers in Tarauaca, Acre, was ambushed and killed, allegedly by the son of a landowner, who has not been charged. In January the president of the Tarauaca rural workers union was almost killed when two gunmen invaded his home...
...right. Bekana Santos Kaiapo, who plays Imana, the Brazilian Indian child helped by Dr. Campbell (Sean Connery), made his film debut as an infant in The Emerald Forest (1985) and earned his spurs more recently in At Play in the Fields of the Lord. Edinei Maria Serrio Dos Santos, who appears as Imana's mother, also played Indians in all three films. Elias Monteiro da Silva, Campbell's aide Palala, was in At Play. Silva says his latest role was particularly daunting: "I play an Indian who speaks English. And I'm not an Indian, and I don't speak...