Word: au
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...villages to rubble, and carving great rivers of red clay that stained offshore waters crimson three miles out. Radio monitors in Miami heard an unidentified operator report "terrible damage." Then he was blown off the air. Within Haiti all telephone and radio communication was cut off from the Port-au-Prince capital, lying on the edge of the hurricane's eye. And for 12 hours there was silence in Haiti...
...constant attack," he had said. Yet he confided in Ole Miss Episcopal Chaplain Wofford Smith that he had bought the pistol because he was "scared." The few U.S. marshals who had been living on the campus to protect both Negroes had left after Meredith's graduation in Au gust. Recalled Smith: "McDowell said he had applied for a permit to carry his pistol. I told him this was the perfect tipoff that he had it. He said he couldn't help it-he was afraid somebody might kill...
...Nice Part. Some of the world premieres played during the week were clearly also swan songs-the one and only performance of some trail blazer's lapse into buffoonery. But the au courant audience had come to hear a conclave of the bizarre as well as the beautiful, and like buyers at a fall fashion showing in Paris, they cherished the new and outlandish for its own sake...
...private hatchet force called the tonton macoute. Part vigilante, part mafia, the tonton macoute exercised--and continues to exercise--an unpredictable but bloody power. To replace popularity--by this time Duvalier enjoyed little--he unleashed a propaganda campaign that featured large neon inscriptions (the only neon in Port-au-Prince), "I AM THE HAITIAN FLAG ONE AND INDIVISIBLE, DR. F. DUVALIER" and life size portraits bearing the doctor's slogan, "COUNTRY, PEACE AND JUSTICE...
Relations between the United States and the President steadily worsened until last April when palace intrigue, a threatened Dominican invasion, and a final refusal to hold elections brought the United States to the verge of marine invasion. Port-au-Prince has since ceased to be a port of call for the dollar bearing Caribbean cruise ships. All but one of the six international airlines that serviced Haiti have suspended operations and, at that, Pan American's daily flight carries more people out than...