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...where they went on trial last month, the 13 British and American mercenaries gathered after a nine-day hiatus in the proceedings, during which the five-member revolutionary tribunal had deliberated their fate. Optimism ran reasonably high among Angolan, British and American defense lawyers, even though Prosecutor Manuel Rui Monteiro had demanded death for all. In his marathon summation (3 hr. 20 min.), Monteiro had blasted the U.S. and British governments more than the mercenaries. He branded the U.S. as "the home of the CIA and the mother of mercenaries" and Henry Kissinger as "the traveling salesman of the international...
Trial Tone. The evenhanded tone of the trial was set by Chief Judge Ernesto Texeira da Silva, a Luanda lawyer. He questioned witnesses in a calm, fatherly way, occasionally rebuked flamboyant, goateed Prosecutor Manuel Rui Monteiro, and allowed defense lawyers to introduce matters that Western courts would quickly have ruled inadmissible or irrelevant. At one point the judge ordered the arrest of a prosecution witness for perjury and had the testimony of another stricken from the record...
Nignogs. Wearing black robes and glaring malevolently at the defendants, Prosecutor Monteiro tried to interject strident political notes. With seeming deliberation, he failed to correct his witnesses when they kept referring to the mercenaries, most of whom were British, as "the Americans." Raising the specter of racism, he asked one defendant: "Isn't it true you referred to black Angolans between yourselves as nignogs?" Answered the prisoner firmly: "Sir, we never once used that name." Monteiro also arranged for a courtroom film show that featured clips of President Ford denying that the U.S. was training mercenaries, followed by gruesome...
...Quest. It is the slack time of the 1930s, and Julian Tate is a young man in need of a quest. He finds it on the day he is offered a job working in Brazil for a man named Joao Monteiro, who is trying to interest Wall Street capital in a mining concession on the Massaranduba River, a major tributary far up the Amazon. There is gold in the Massaranduba valley, and rumors of diamonds and emeralds as well. But what fires Jul ian is the chance to explore the tropic frontier, to prospect and map the river and rain...
Aboard the freighter out of New York, Julian meets Cora Almeida. Slim, blonde, cool, casual, and effortlessly provocative, she is the American wife of the Brazilian politician who is the archenemy of Monteiro and the Massaranduba Concession. By the time Julian steps off the boat in the port city of Belem, he is enthralled. He is also neck-deep in Brazilian intrigue, for the Concession is not only a business deal but the political lever by which Monteiro and his party hope to gain control of the state government...