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Three years ago, Neto's Moscow-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) appeared to have won control of the former Portuguese territory in a bloody civil war against two Western-supported independence groups: Holden Roberto's National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.) and Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). In fact, the civil war never really ended, and Neto's Popular Movement government, even with Cuban assistance, has not been able to establish jurisdiction over a country that is larger than Britain, France, Portugal and West Germany combined...
...split into three factions; moreover, according to Western intelligence estimates, several battalions of Cubans have been deployed in Cabinda to protect the offshore oil wells that currently provide most of Angola's revenues. Farther south, surviving units of the F.N.L.A. also harass government forces in occasional skirmishes, even though Holden Roberto, 55, now stays mainly in Zaïre. President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaïre provided much of the F.N.L.A.'s support during the civil war. The Luanda regime may have encouraged the Katangese invasion of Shaba region partly out of vengeance...
...they still had to discover the hard way just how large was the conspiracy of devil's disciples assigned to protect the secret of his origins and mission. In the new movie most of Damien's protectors telegraph their satanic allegiance the minute they appear, and William Holden as his decent uncle-guardian is constantly kept at a distance from the lad's evil doings...
Since we are also shielded from the few suspicions that Holden is permitted, we never make the kind of identification with a strong, appealing, endangered figure that the horror genre requires. The result is a movie full of much tedious talk relieved by the occasional gaudy murder...
When Joe Wyatt became Harvard's vice president for administration in 1976, one of the first things he noticed was the disorganized state of Harvards holdings. The cause for his concern was a group of married students up in arms over proposed renovations for Holden Green, a housing community for about 100 families which Harvard has operated for 50 years. The married students' tenants union was protesting the University's plan because they were happy with their two- and three-room apartments the way they were. Renovations only meant rent increases and eviction notices. The conflict between the University...