Word: roberto
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...armed struggle is being carried on by survivors of liberation movements that fought Neto's M.P.L.A. in the bloody, mammoth civil war: Holden Roberto's National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.), Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and FLEC, a Zaire-supported front that seeks independence from Angola for the oil-rich northern enclave of Cabinda. Despite the continuing presence in Angola of at least 13,000 elite Cuban troops, which supplement his own Soviet-supplied army of 20,000, Neto concedes that "the defense of the country...
...understatement. The 500 or so FLEC guerrillas in Cabinda have not yet interfered with the oil production that supplies 80% of Angola's foreign exchange, but their hit-and-run raids have tied down at least 5,000 Cuban and M.P.L.A. troops. Elsewhere in northern Angola, Roberto's F.N.L.A. soldiers are carrying on a low-level insurgency campaign of sabotage, road mining and occasional ambushes. They have made the coffee plantations of the area so unsafe that laborers from the south refuse to work there...
When she was a child, Isabella Rossellini made up her mind not to be an actress like Mommy or a film director like Daddy. She wanted to be a circus ringmaster. Now, at age 24, the daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini is still hung up on rings-only these house a different breed of cat. As a reporter for Italian television, Isabella has just finished interviewing 40 U.S. boxers -including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Robinson and Joe Louis-for an upcoming six-hour special on the history of the sport. "I used to think boxers were...
Open City. The story behind this movie is as remarkable as the film itself--Roberto Rossellini made it while the Germans still occupied Rome in 1945. The plot anticipates the Historic Compromise; a priest and a Communist partisan cooperate to combat fascism...
...squad. He said that Callan "told me that if I didn't do it I'd be joining the victims." McKenzie's defense was directly challenged by one prosecution witness, a former F.N.L.A. soldier, who testified that both Callan and McKenzie had forced a group of Roberto's troops to strip naked. The witness claimed that Callan said, "When I count one, two, three−run"−and that both the colonel and McKenzie had opened fire on the fleeing men. "Lying bastard," growled McKenzie from his wheelchair in the dock...