Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Luanda, Agostinho Neto, head of the Soviet-backed M.P.L.A., announced the birth of the People's Republic of Angola. More or less at the same time, Holden Roberto of the F.N.L.A. (backed by Zaire, France and the U.S.) and Jonas Savimbi of UNITA (aided by Portuguese and South African business interests) jointly declared that they had formed the Democratic People's Republic of Angola, with a temporary capital in the southern city of Huambo, formerly Nova Lisboa...
...National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.), led by Holden Roberto, 52, with strong support from Zaïre, France and reportedly...
F.N.L.A. Chief Roberto has had his own source of foreign strength. His brother-in-law, Zaïre President Mobutu Sese Seko, provides the F.N.L.A's 33,000 regular troops with arms, armored cars and personnel carriers sent to Zaïre by France and China. Roberto, the most Western-oriented of the Angolan liberation leaders, has also reportedly received CIA backing; it is believed that the Administration's request to Congress for a $35 million increase in military aid to Zaïre is mostly ticketed for the F.N.L.A. Until UNITA's military alliance with...
Apart from Mobutu's hope that an independent Cabinda would be easy prey for Zaire, he has concentrated on aiding the FNLA, whose leader, Holden Roberto, is his brother-in-law. The FNLA is essentially a tribal organization of the Bakongo, some 500,000 of whom fled to Zaire after the abortive 1961 uprising, and operates largely from Zairean bases. Since the FNLA has no real program beyond anti-communism and tribalism, the movement has attracted a great deal of Western support which is funneled through Mobutu. The U.S., which is increasing military aid to Zaire from $3.8 million...
...Roberto Rossellini's The Age of the Medicl: Cosimo Di Medici (Part one), Sunday...