Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jean-Bernard Diederich, a photographer working on this week's World story about Haiti's tragic attempt at free elections, had arrived only a few minutes earlier at L'Ecole Nationale Argentine Bellegarde, a Port-au-Prince elementary ) school. What he saw was a polling place turned into a killing ground. Bodies lay everywhere, some riddled by bullets, others hacked to pieces by machetes. A band of 50 Tonton Macoutes, former henchmen of the Duvalier family, had slaughtered almost a score of people as they lined up to vote...
...there hid me and tended a gash in my hand." The U.S. embassy later sent an armored car to pick him up. "I was lucky I had a place to escape to," said Diederich, a Miami resident who was born in Haiti and is the son of TIME Reporter Bernard Diederich. "Those people took me into their homes when I was in danger, yet I cannot take them into mine now that theirs is in danger. In Haiti today, life has no value, especially for the ordinary folk. The future holds a lot of pain and suffering for a people...
Witnesses put members of the army at the scene of some of the most grisly violence. Photographer Jean-Bernard Diederich, who was caught in one attack on foreign journalists while on assignment for TIME, reported, "The army did the shooting." In some instances, army and Macoute vehicles cruised in tandem, giving the appearance of collaboration and raising questions about just how separate the military and paramilitary forces really...
When the stage was his only world, Kenneth Tynan dominated it as no drama critic since George Bernard Shaw had. When, sometime in the 1960s, the wide world was turned into a stage for celebrity posturings, the critic recast himself as a potential star, offering himself as an international social critic and sexual reformer. And became just another face in a crowd grotesquely clamoring for attention. The life his second wife, Kathleen, recounts in her uncompromising and ultimately harrowing biography-memoir becomes the record of a befuddled search for the fulfillment of youth's inordinate promise, and for the graceful...
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