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...office in a dirt-floored converted bar in Leopoldville, Angola Rebellion Leader Holden Roberto happily waved a grimy letter on blue airmail paper. The exhausted courier who carried it over the border was already fast asleep in one corner. The letter, said Roberto, reported that rebel operations were now spreading southward in Angola...
Since the rebellion began in the north four months ago, Roberto estimates perhaps 25,000 Angolans have been killed, some 1,000 Portuguese. Neutral observers estimate more conservatively that 4.000 rebels have been killed, some 1.200 loyalists, including 500 whites. 700 loyal blacks. Says Roberto: "We can keep on fighting longer than the Portuguese because there are more than...
...Classic Touch. With the rainy season ending, the tactical advantage shifts to the Portuguese troops, who can now take the offensive without bogging down in the mud. But some 5.000 white soldiers have arrived from Lisbon to beef up Angola's 2,000-man regular garrison. Roberto's forces are also grouping for a showdown. He claims that he is getting financial aid from Tunisia to fuel his revolt but denies that he is getting any help from Ghana (the Portuguese have admitted that they made a mistake in claiming the capture of 71 "Ghanaians"). "The Portuguese have...
LOEB DRAMA CENTER: More from the First Boston International Film Festival. At 5 p.m., the German film, The Blazing Sand, with Raphel Nussbaum. At 7, Mexico's Macario, starring Roberto Galvadon. And at 9:30, the Grecian This Side of the River, featuring Nikos Koundouros. On Saturday, the Festival offers (by invitation only) the esteemed British film. The Angry Silence, with Guy Green and Richard Attenborough. This at 5:30 p.m. Later, at 7 (no invitation needed) the Pakistani movie. The Day Shall Dawn, starring Aaejay Kardar. And, at 9:30. Robert Bresson's The Pickpocket. Tickets at the Festival...
...rebels are estimated to have killed some 600 Angolan whites. Last week the Portuguese, who all along have claimed that the revolt was not spontaneous but instigated from the outside, reported that army troops had captured 71 well-armed Ghanaian guerrillas fighting alongside the rebels. Rebel leader Holden Roberto, who directs the rebellion from his Leopoldville headquarters, has insisted that his U.P.A. has not had help from Ghana, professes to scorn Nkrumah as too leftist. But Ghana and Guinea have fostered a rival Communist-dominated group called the Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), and Nkrumah's meddlesome...