Word: holden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office in a dirt-floored converted bar in Leopoldville, Angola Rebellion Leader Holden Roberto happily waved a grimy letter on blue airmail paper. The exhausted courier who carried it over the border was already fast asleep in one corner. The letter, said Roberto, reported that rebel operations were now spreading southward in Angola...
...Altogether, the rebels are estimated to have killed some 600 Angolan whites. Last week the Portuguese, who all along have claimed that the revolt was not spontaneous but instigated from the outside, reported that army troops had captured 71 well-armed Ghanaian guerrillas fighting alongside the rebels. Rebel leader Holden Roberto, who directs the rebellion from his Leopoldville headquarters, has insisted that his U.P.A. has not had help from Ghana, professes to scorn Nkrumah as too leftist. But Ghana and Guinea have fostered a rival Communist-dominated group called the Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), and Nkrumah...
Five-day package tours (from $140 per person) and all-out game safaris (from $1,000 for 30 days, including white hunter) can be booked in Nairobi; or travelers can head on their own for the Mount Kenya Safari Club (built by Actor William Holden's syndicate, now linked with American Express), where the living, hunting, dining and golf are expansive and expensive (front suite. $84 per person). And no matter which way they drive, tourists will inevitably meet up with animals. Motoring out of Nairobi in a hired car recently, two U.S. schoolmarms spied a lion sprawled...
...Bowditch and Paul Sullivan fell behind, 3-6, 1-2, at number one, and Pete Smith and Bob Schwartzman dropped the first set at number two. Smith and Schwartzman, after taking a 5-3 lead in the second set, lost, 6-2, 8-6, to Ron Picket and Larry Holden...
...into quagmires of oozing mud, and the elephant grass grows eight-feet high, making concealment a simple matter for the terrorists who slipped across the border by night from President Joseph Kasavubu's Republic of the Congo. Most are followers of a determined, softspoken, exiled African Angolan named Holden Roberto, 36, who has spent months organizing the revolt from the headquarters of his Union of the Populations of Angola* in Léopoldville, the Congo's capital. His eager recruits are mostly Angolan expatriates who have fled their country to escape the harsh Portuguese regime...