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...self-professed Marxist terrorist-turned-minister," named--he says--Bruce C. Williams, a native of North Carolina, after having been a self-professed "militant activist" in the civil rights movement, was "recruited to join the communist revolutionary cause in Cuba." After being trained in terrorism in Cuba and the Soviet Union, and participating "in bombings and killings" in the Middle East, he saw the light, and twelve years ago became a minister in the Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church...
...quality of the story may be judged from the paragraph: "When six soldiers raped the four-year-old daughter of a peasant family he had befriended in Cuba and then dismembered the entire family, Williams said he realized the Marxist cause was not genuinely reformist...
...done a generally fine job of putting things together. Narrations of events, particularly by the supporting female characters, are all wonderfully delivered in the distinctive style of PBS documentaries. Tempo is well controlled in a play whose tempo comprises half of its humor, from the saltry, seductive delivery of Marxist-Leninist philosophy to the back and forth of limmerick-style banter. Nothing is really seriously screwed...
...DECADES, various indigenous factions fought to overthrow Portugese colonialism in Angola and Mozambique. In 1975, Portugal withdrew, and the elections which were supposed to forge a democratic consensus were precluded by civil war. The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)--a Marxist group supported by Cuba and the Soviet Union--prevailed in 1976, but Savimbi's group, a Chinese proxy, failed to secure itself a role in the new government. This despite the Ford Administration's last-ditch commitment of $32 million in CIA aid to another "anti-communist" faction, the now-defunct National Front for the Liberation...
...irony of it all is that while "constructive engagement" with the white regime in South Africa has failed miserably, it would be an excellent policy toward the putatively Marxist MPLA. The Angolan government really isn't all that Marxist--it allows American oil companies to conduct business there in exchange for $2 billion a year in tax revenue...