Word: baskethead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Great Special Cordon. Could even that much change have been accomplished by a roly-poly young playboy known to his critics as "Baskethead"? Hardly, and there are signs that Jean-Claude is not even enjoying the role of figurehead. He is not allowed to ride his Harley-Davidson and has to settle instead for joyrides in his sporty blue Toyota or flashy Lamborghini, usually escorted by a caravan of scowling secret policemen. One of the few pleasures of office was his acceptance recently of the Chinese Nationalist Order of the Propitious Clouds, Great Special Cordon grade, bestowed as part...
Most educated Haitians who are acquainted with the 200-lb. "Baskethead," as Jean-Claude is known, are said to be less hostile to the idea of his succession than skeptical. If any of Duvalier's four children appears to have the sort of killer instinct demanded by the job, they reason, it would be his eldest daughter, the plump and hard-driving Marie-Denise (Dédé), 29. Dédé is so strong willed, in fact, that she is sometimes called "Mama...
...observed that Caesar Augustus was only 19 when he inherited the Roman Empire. "I will give power to youth when the time comes," said Duvalier, "because the future belongs to youth." By youth Papa Doc meant his only son, Jean-Claude, 19, a moonfaced, 200-lb. lad known as Baskethead to his classmates. A 1963 kidnap attempt on Jean-Claude so enraged his father that at least 100 persons, including 65 army officers, were executed. The legend persists that, at 13, the spoiled boy used a palace officer as a pistol target and shot him fatally...
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