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Duvalier moved toward the military aircraft, pausing to bestow a few words of thanks on the row of elite khaki-uniformed guards who had protected him in the final months of his presidency. Nearby, two grim-faced men, one in military uniform, one in civilian dress, observed the Duvaliers' departure. They were members of the five-man junta to which the abdicating President was passing the leadership of the country. The Air Force plane took off at 3:46 a.m., carrying Duvalier, now an ex-President-for-Life, out of Haiti for only the second time. With him were...
Beattie keeps the pace of her story brisk and the atmosphere antic but genial. People who assume that TV and gossip columns can bestow meaning on their lives might come in for criticism in some quarters. Not here. Reading Love Always is as easy and relaxing as watching a field of fireflies at dusk...
...vapours/ Distress our fair ones -- let 'em read the papers." That advice is still being followed at supermarket check-out counters. In Jane Austen's Persuasion, a shut-in hears neighborhood news: "Call it gossip if you will; but when nurse Rooke has half an hour's leisure to bestow on me, she is sure to have something to relate that is entertaining and profitable, something that makes one know one's species better." What the invalid learns is that "it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of." Comments Spacks: "Nurse Rooke's gossip...
Reagan's decision to avoid the subject of the Holocaust next month is particularly troubling in the face of such blatant, dangerous revisionism. As he plans his trip, Reagan should heed the words of writer and camp survivor Elie Weisel, on whom he will bestow the Congressional medal of honor this week. Of his teenage years spent in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Weisel wrote in his autobiographical account, Night, "Never shall I forget these things even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself." While Reagan's plea to "look to the future...
...charge often leveled at Reaganomics is that it has hurt the poor by cutting back social programs, including welfare and food stamps. In Losing Ground (Basic Books; $23.95), Murray unabashedly asserts that slashing social spending is the greatest favor the Government can bestow upon the poor. Federal welfare programs, he concludes, perpetuate poverty rather than cure...