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...with the constitution!"--a reference to the document that gives Duvalier, 34, lifetime tenure as President and the right to choose his successor. The following day students in Gonaïves abandoned classes to demand an end to Duvalier's reign. Army troops shot two students in cold blood and beat a third to death. That inspired students all over Haiti to launch new protests, most of which were violently put down by security forces. On Dec. 15, a Gonaïves school principal was arrested and later died in police custody...
...Miami stood 2-4 in the wire-service poll of the coaches, 3-2 in the competing view of the sporting press. Having already beaten Oklahoma, 27-14, the Hurricanes were poised to be affronted by only half a title should the Sooners defeat Penn State. Miami had to beat Tennessee, naturally, but the pregame talk dealt mostly with whether the 'Canes would run up the score to solidify their claim. They would. In a newspaper diary that could have been titled "What I Did on My French-Quarter Vacation," Defensive Tackle Jerome Brown yawned, "I don't think Tennessee...
Though the 39.10-point one-day drop in the Dow beat the mark set in 1929, the decline is not comparable to the Great Crash. Experts maintain that it is a temporary pause in the bull market. A court decision leads Kodak to stop production of instant cameras and film, leaving the field to Polaroid. The Federal Reserve cracks down on the use of junk bonds in takeovers...
...have your Prince and so-called macho men Don Johnson, Pete Rose and Sylvester Stallone. For me, it is the picture of Koko and kitten that makes my heart skip a beat. Shirley A. Tavormina Nokomis...
...noontime sun beat down on a weather-beaten throng of 20,000 assembled in the dusty market town of Casa Grande. Normally toiling in nearby sugarcane fields, the villagers stood in the withering heat waiting for an apparition from the sky. As a whining white air force helicopter came into view, the crowd spotted the broad, beaming face of President Alan García Pérez, waving a white handkerchief in greeting. "Alan!" thundered the crowd as the helicopter set down in a swirl of dust. "Alan! Alan...