Word: au
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Au contraire, mon frere...
...There are a lot more choices for people to go to today, but there's still a need for an Elsie's," he said. "Thirty years ago there weren't nearly as many restaurants in the Square, and we didn't have the Au Bon Pains of the world...
...nearly dusk on a recent evening when a U.S. Special Forces team walked into a village northeast of Port-au-Prince and encountered a problem for which their training manuals had not prepared them. Several mothers were convinced that a pair of werewolves, in the form of two local women, had placed a curse on the village children and were now preparing to consume their babies' souls. As he listened, the team's warrant officer tucked his hand into his pocket, snapped open a chemical light stick that soldiers use as markers at night and announced in Creole that...
...American soldiers still stationed in Haiti have come to occupy two radically different worlds. The first is the world of Port-au-Prince, which belongs to conventional soldiers who patrol the streets, keep the peace and bide their time until they are scheduled to return home. The second world belongs to the 1,200 men of the Special Forces who, since the occupation began, have overseen rural Haiti. Taking on the roles of sheriff, prosecutor, judge, plumber, mayor and ghostbuster, these commandos are often the only glue holding together the 5 million Haitians who live outside the capital...
From their headquarters in a former brassiere factory in Port-au-Prince, the Green Berets have fanned out to more than 500 villages. Upon arriving, they have often been forced to refashion local government after the soldiers and strongmen who terrorized the area faded away like zombies in the night, leaving behind a brutalized population. In Mirebalais, the prodemocracy deputy mayor was beheaded and his body thrown into a nearby river. At the prison in Les Cayes, inmates were treated so abominably that one man's spine was visible through the lesions on his back...