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...backlash, so everybody thought, was an "obvious" issue. Dingell accused Lesinski's followers of "trying to use it. They're raising the bogeyman, telling people that if I'm elected there will be two Negro families on every block in Dearborn." Lesinski indeed raised some bogeymen. "The other day," he cried in a typical speech, "a 35-year-old man was set upon and stabbed by four colored fellows. He was stabbed to death. It didn't appear on TV or in the papers. They hushed it up. Now that's the kind of thing...
What is astounding about the present administration is not its corruption (most of Haiti's governments have been corrupt) but rather the degree of corruption. Today Haiti provides its President with five palaces, a private police force known as the "Ton-ton Macoute" (which is Creole for "bogeymen"), and countless sources of income. In a nation with a 10 per cent literacy rate, high unemployment, and a 50 per cent infant mortality rate, only 15 per cent of the budget goes for operations, while 85 per cent is spent on salaries for the dictator's associates. The government's response...
...Duvalier, a onetime backwoods physician who ministered to the poor, promised to change everything. Instead, he slapped on stiff new taxes and tolls, siphoned off graft to his cronies. To hold down the opposition, Duvalier set up a plainclothes gestapo of 5,000 men, called Tonton Macoute, or bogeymen, and in 1960 added a militia that now numbers 13,000. The two operate in chilling tandem, handling everything from shakedowns of merchants to the assassination of suspected anti-Duvalierists. Their biggest day came in 1961 when they helped Duvalier rig a phony election that extended his rule to 1967. Legally...
...Haiti, the small Negro Caribbean country misruled by Strongman François Duvalier. A respected back-country doctor before he went into politics, "Papa Doc,'' as he calls himself, has become a ham-fisted tyrant, illegally perpetuating himself in power. His private army of Tonton Macoutes. meaning bogeymen in Creole, crushes the opposition and shakes down businessmen. The bogeymen even insist on distributing the U.S. gifts of food and taking their cut; the U.S. refuses, and so the food sits rotting in a Port-au-Prince warehouse. All development-economic, social, political-is at a standstill, while Haiti...
...October deadline. Senior tutors and Head Tutors have offered a number of convincing case histories that might justify their invoking "some kind of academic McNaughton rule." (2) Much more important, we do not see much to be gained for the undergraduate by a Joneslan unequivocal treatment of departments as bogeymen. "The issue behind C.L.G.S.," he writes, "is freedom from the departments, not within them." No doubt he is right, but why assume that it is in the very nature of departments to block reform, that reform must perpetually be supplied by countervailing forces from the outside? The CRIMSON proposal, which...