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...controversial new film about the incident, Il Caso Moro (The Moro Case), directed by Giuseppe Ferrara and starring popular Actor Gian Maria Volonte, has reopened old wounds. The movie portrays the Red Brigades as well- spoken, well-groomed youths. It asks whether the Christian Democrats did all they could to free Moro and answers with a resounding...
Christian Democratic leaders have attacked Il Caso Moro as a "gross distortion." Nonetheless, Italian moviegoers are flocking to the film...
Vogt saw Chiapas for the first time in 1955, when Dr. Alfonso Caso, director of INI, invited him to Mexico to visit potential sites for applied anthropology. Chiapas seemed ideal for several reasons. First, the Indians in Chiapas are the descendants of the ancient Mayans, so knowledge of their customs goes as far back as the Spanish Conquest. Second, the Indian communities are in the midst of a slow urbanization process that is challenging many of their traditions. Third, the countryside was beautiful and the climate hospitable...
When it was over, the audience gurgled like a bunch of doting mothers. Gushed one matron: "Angels-all of them!" Director Caso had polished the Arizona Boys Chorus well. They were as well disciplined as paratroopers. And their voices, like their faces, were shiny and pure...
British-born Eduardo Caso, 50, moved to the U.S. in 1930, sang on the radio for a while, then came down with tuberculosis and went to Tucson for the cure. Says he: "For two years I did nothing. And then I decided I had to make money. I opened a singing school and rounded up the best boys I could find and began training them. At first the town wasn't very cooperative, but they're coming around now." Caso gives his boys six hours a week of rehearsal, stresses one thing above all: "Discipline. Discipline first, relax...