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...that the three-member provisional government, seated to guide Haiti through its transition to democracy, had evidently sold out the people's dreams to protect the army's interests. As talk ranged from new elections and foreign intervention to civil disobedience and armed insurrection, Haiti seemed balanced on the brink of anarchy. "From now on, it will be a constant struggle until we get our way," warned the Rev. Alain Rocourt, an election official and proponent of democratic change. "We've already lost too many people and too much blood. We're prepared...
...senior--on the brink of being admitted into the company of educated men and women--and there are still things that even I do not understand. This worries me. I have very little time left to make amends before I will be forced into a pathetic little life of misery and sadness, during which my peers will mock me mercilessly at every opportunity. You can always count on peers for that...
...democracy. Since the overthrow of Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier in February 1986, the nation has been ruled by an army-dominated provisional government headed by Lieut. General Henri Namphy. The 22 months of military rule, though, have been a period of unrest, as the country stood on the brink of anarchy. In some areas law and order have virtually broken down, and an estimated 500 people have been killed in random and often gruesome violence. At the same time, the country was struggling with democratic procedures that were unfamiliar to Haitians after three decades of dictatorship by the Duvalier...
Thirty people die in London' s worst subway fire. -- Yugoslavia teeters on the brink of collapse. -- White South Africa turns "gray...
Until recently New York was a showpiece of urban success, and Koch was credited with leading the city back from the brink of bankruptcy in the mid- 1970s to new heights of prosperity. The jobs created during his ten years as mayor led to a record 3.6 million workers in the city. Manhattan reasserted itself as the dazzling hub of finance and the arts. Even Pope John Paul II gee-whizzed that New York was the "capital of the world...