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...beauty. The film is widely satirical--the very insanity of its premise--that the network keeps the insane commentator on the air because of his ratings--makes a film funnier than Eric Severaid. Faye Dunaway plays a programming executive who is without an ounce of compassion; William Holden plays a deposed news executive who gambles on her capacity for love--and loses. Holden is a little dull, but Dunaway and Peter Finch, the crazed commentator, manage to carry off the film's roller coaster ride of high-level network looniness." Well, as veterans of the Lincoln brigade might have said...
...find... nothing. The film is as sterile as a 30 second clip of Amy Carter walking to her integrated school. Faye Dunaway won her Best Actress award for Chinatown, not this lemon. Peter Finch is dead, and far be it from us to talk about the dead. William Holden turns in a solid performance as the network news chief, but the dignified Holden comes off rather like a Shetland pony in an 8 x 11 porno still-he looks more dignified than the questionable debutantes around him. Paddy Chayevsky's script is polemical, cliched, and, like most tracts--boring. This...
...with U.N. and U.S. help) in 1963, many Katangese soldiers fled across the border to Angola. Eventually they joined forces with the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), largely because their old enemy, Zaïrian President Mobutu Sese Seko, was supporting a rival Angolan guerrilla group, Holden Roberto's National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.). Now, apparently, Agostinho Neto's M.P.L.A. government is helping the Katangese to even an old score with Mobutu...
Covert CIA payments to other key individuals abroad have been commonplace. Among the recipients: the late President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Viet Nam; President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (formerly the Congo); Holden Roberto, head of a losing faction in the Angola civil war; and Eduardo Frei, former President of Chile. The Post also reported claims that money had gone to Archbishop Makarios III, the President of Cyprus, and former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Each man vehemently denied the charge...
...armed struggle is being carried on by survivors of liberation movements that fought Neto's M.P.L.A. in the bloody, mammoth civil war: Holden Roberto's National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.), Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and FLEC, a Zaire-supported front that seeks independence from Angola for the oil-rich northern enclave of Cabinda. Despite the continuing presence in Angola of at least 13,000 elite Cuban troops, which supplement his own Soviet-supplied army of 20,000, Neto concedes that "the defense of the country...