Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...F.N.L.A., which is led by Black Nationalist Holden Roberto and backed by Roberto's brother-in-law, President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire...
...second trial of Martin Peretz's investigative reporting policy, an Independent editor discovers that Stephen S.J. Hall's third name is Jose, and that Hall is still working, two months after Bok laid off all people with Spanish surnames. Hall agrees to go quietly. "If Roberto Ungar counts, so do I," he says. "El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido...
Died. Vittorio De Sica, 73, Italian director and actor who, with Roberto Rossellini, brought a new realism to films; of lung cancer; in Paris. De Sica during the 1920s performed as a romantic lead in stage comedies and musicals, and in the 1930s turned to similar roles in films. In 1940 he directed the first of his 34 movies, but World War II and its devastating effects on Italy moved De Sica to focus his attention on the plight of the poor. He often found his actors among street people, told unadorned tales of poverty and pain...
...relative affluence is in large part the result of the exiles' hard work and ingenuity. But it also reflects the fact that a large percentage of the immigrants arrived with considerable professional and managerial skills. "Castro wanted to get rid of everyone who had run the country," explains Roberto Fabricio, a Cuban reporter for the Miami Herald. "Everyone who ran Cuba before la revolution is now in Miami...
...colonial prerogative to decide "when the native is ready for independence," the fact of the matter is that thirteen years of fighting have produced a more seasoned leadership than four hundred years of Portuguese colonialism could master. In my opinion such leaders as Samora Machel in Mozambique, Holden Roberto, Agostinho Neto and Jonas Savimbi in Angola and Luiz Cabral in Guinea-Bissau--to mention a few--have demonstrated a capacity for leadership that seems superior to Lisbon's crop of leadership during the past fifty years...