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...Angola (MPLA), which in mid-1975 already controlled twelve of the country's 15 provinces, and see that it had some competition in the pre-independence elections. The CIA decided to shore up two other guerrilla groups, the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) under Holden Roberto and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) led by Jonas Savimbi. But before long, says Stockwell, the looking-glass warriors at Langley began to view Angola as "our war," and the goal became victory for the pro-Western groups. To that end, Stockwell says, the agency...
...sister Elizabeth Marcos Keon, for example, is governor of Ilocos Norte province, and Benjamin ("Kokoy") Romualdez, Imelda's brother, who owns the Times Journal, one of the capital's major dailies, is governor of Leyte province and heads the League of Provincial Governors and City Mayors. Roberto Benedicto, a frequent Marcos golfing partner, has acquired three television stations since martial law was imposed (giving him a total of four) and is chief of the Philippine Sugar Commission...
...first the only work available to them was in car washes or New England orchards and farms. The doors to Cambridge factories were closed to Hispanics according to Roberto Santiago, a Cambridge Hispanic who is a community liason worker for the city school department. But if some types of work were off limits, employment for unskilled laborers was abundant...
Voyage to Italy. Roberto Rosselini departs from the more descriptive neorealism of his other classics to produce a troubling psychological portrait of a British couple whose marriage goes to pieces during a vacation trip to Naples. (It is more likely that the break-up between Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders is largely based on Rosselini's own ll-fated romance with Bergman.) French director Jean-Luc Godard said about it, "there are five or six films in the history of the cinema which one wants to review simply by saying 'It is the most beautiful of film,' why say more...
...Brazilian Playwright Roberto Athayde's feeble premise that the theater goers are the students, and they are encouraged to answer back only to be squelched by Miss Margarida, a form of bearbaiting, not dialogue. If the play means to be a parable of political tyranny, the point is fully made in the first ten minutes. More probably, Playwright Athayde means to say that we are force-fed prefabricated information throughout our lives. He also goes cosmic over morality with the appearance of a skeleton .nd Miss Margarida's big bad news: "You are all going to die." Without...