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...groups have strong tribal rivalries. The F.N.L.A. is almost to tally Bakongo, UNITA almost totally Ovimbundu. In 1961, at the start of the guerrilla war for independence in north ern Angola, the Bakongo savagely murdered and mutilated hundreds of the Ovimbundu tribe, which has never forgotten or forgiven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANGOLA: Now for Some Diplomacy | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...Patty Woo and Rozlyn Anderson) are all fine. One of the few flaws in the characterizations is Doug Morgan's portrayal of half-mortal Strephon. One always sympathizes with actors condemned to boring straight roles while others are allowed to bring down the house. But Morgan can't be forgiven so easily--he approaches his role with a set of two or three facial contortions and speaks his lines in a grating whine...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: G & S Without Peers | 12/11/1975 | See Source »

...fantasy." He got the political part of the radicals' critique right, on the whole, though by 1975, with Walt Rostow trapped on celluloid repeating his war apologies before audiences watching "Hearts and Minds" while hundreds waited for helicopters on the roof of our embassy in Saigon, one could be forgiven for wondering whether the "world of fantasy" won't soon be Pusey...

Author: By James A. Sleeper, | Title: Why They Leave | 12/9/1975 | See Source »

...could do this by means of an amnesty rather than by using pardons. "There is a very important distinction," one of the government officials told TIME Madrid Bureau Chief Gavin Scott. "An amnesty says you didn't do it. A pardon says you did but you are forgiven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Start of the Post-Franco Era | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...remained unacceptable to the G.O.P.'s hard-core right wing, which had never forgiven him for his opposition to Barry Goldwater in 1964. Nothing Rocky did could assuage them. When Howard ("Bo") Callaway, a Georgia conservative, was named Ford's campaign chairman, he went out of his way to say that Rocky was Ford's "No. 1 problem" in winning the nomination. In an effort to pacify his enemies, Rocky went South to exchange compliments with George Wallace, but the trip riled liberals without changing the minds of many conservatives. A September Harris poll showed that only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Grace Note from Rocky | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

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