Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With independence from Portugal fast approaching, Angola is careering toward a bloodbath even more rapidly than the mother country. Last week, when the Portuguese high commissioner, General Antonio da Silva Cardoso, flew home for consultations in Lisbon, he left behind a torn and bleeding land. Fighting among rival liberation movements engulfed the last of Portugal's African territories and posed the prospect of a Nov. 11 changeover that will be anything but orderly. Said a bitter Silva Cardoso: "Perhaps they can just mail the flag to Lisbon...
...estimated 4,000 people, mostly blacks, have died in the fighting since the first of the year, more than the number killed during the entire 13-year war of liberation from Portugal. In recent weeks, the fighting has been concentrated in the capital of Luanda, where rival groups are dueling with heavy artillery. Last week it spread throughout the north and central parts of the country to the oil-rich enclave of Cabinda and even to the relatively peaceful south...
...Marxist-oriented Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), the F.N.L.A.'s chief rival, commands 23,000 regulars and perhaps 10,000 armed civilians, who have been dubbed "Street Soviets" by other movements. The M.P.L.A. has reinforced its strength with Soviet and Czech arms. Headed by Agostinho Neto, 52, the M.P.L.A. draws most of its support in the cities and from the Kimbundu tribe of north-central Angola...
...that position for a couple of years, ever since he scored a personal hit as the bellicose Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. But the brass ring has never seemed to get any nearer. His friend Jack Nicholson comforted him by declaring publicly that Dern is his only real rival. Even Alfred Hitchcock is compassionate. Dern recently wound up his role as the ne'er-do-well anti-hero in the master's Family Plot. Hitchcock promised: "You're going to be the first actor I've ever made into a star...
...make Pat O'Brien misty. His enmities, claims Leo, were transient, his friendships permanent. Sidney Weil, onetime owner of the Cincinnati Reds, with whom the Lip did many a dubious battle, is "the nicest, kindest man I have ever known." Ed Barrow of the Yankees, a notorious Durocher rival, is "the best friend I had in baseball." Branch Rickey, another erstwhile enemy, is "the great man" in Leo's life...