Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...root out evil in the form of an improbable version of Professor Moriarty. It is as outrageous as a plot can be, serving only as a thin vehicle for strings of lawyerly jokes. These range from imitations of professors (if they're all as good as the one of Roberto Unger, the only professor whose lecture style undergraduates are likely to recognize, they're very funny--but if you've never taken the courses, who knows?) to jokes about job placement interviews (the recruiter tells an insect-costumed student, "The last WASP we had working for us went to Raid...
...years ago, Brazilian rock stars were content with aping the antics of the Beatles or the Monkees. One of them, Roberto Carlos, had a wooden leg, but that never stopped him from cavorting around in psychedelic fashion through jungles, or perching atop the giant Cristo statue on Sugarloaf Mountain above Rio and Copacabana beach. He would sing sugar-candy love songs and had a huge teenybopper following, but if you were really with it you listened to Sergeant Pepper's instead...
Covert CIA payments to other key individuals abroad have been commonplace. Among the recipients: the late President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Viet Nam; President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (formerly the Congo); Holden Roberto, head of a losing faction in the Angola civil war; and Eduardo Frei, former President of Chile. The Post also reported claims that money had gone to Archbishop Makarios III, the President of Cyprus, and former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Each man vehemently denied the charge...
...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...