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When voters were asked to grade 17 areas of Carter's performance on a kind of report card, he won his highest mark 90%, in the area of "advancing the cause of peace in the world." This was an increase of 21% since a similar poll wa taken last June...
Their job is to reoccupy and defend a former French outpost called Muc Wa, which they do successfully until there is an inexplicable change in strategy and they are forced to withdraw into ambush and massacre. The picture is good at catching the absurdity and futility of the operation, but in the long siege-and-retreat sequence, Director Post's failure to rise above simple realism becomes a problem. The scenes here should be spookier and more suspenseful, imparting a developing sense of the madness of isolation in an alien land where the native enemy has all the advantages...
Still, Go Tell the Spartans is, within its limits, an earnest and honest little picture that goes against the escapist grain of movies at this moment. The gesture is probably as futile, commercially, as defending Muc Wa was militarily, but you have to applaud the bravery of the effort and issue some kind of citation to a film that, all told, celebrates unconsciously honorable conduct by individuals enlisted in a bad cause. And offers a lot of good acting in the supporting roles too. -Richard Schickel
Through it all, Kenyatta remained something of an enigma. He changed his reputation at least as often as he altered his name?from Kamau wa Ngengi to Johnstone Kamau, then Johnstone Kenyatta and finally Jomo Kenyatta?as he grew from a herdboy to a mission-school pupil, from a Nairobi water-meter reader to a political activist. His career was shaped by the crucial facts of Kenya life: the lust for land by his Kikuyu tribesmen, and the character of the settler community that was determined to fight to preserve Kenya as a white man's country...
Another still suppressed section of the files reveals that in the early 1970s the leadership of the Black Panthers wa so riddled with FBI informants that the bureau virtually ran the organization Some of the informants viewed their association with the FBI as a license to plunder Black Panther funds and stash away small fortunes before the treasury was drained...