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...history's most malevolent dictators. He was Francois Duvalier, who liked to be called Papa Doc. For 14 years he had held the wretchedly poor black republic of Haiti in a spell of fear. Now the spell was broken. At 64, weakened by heart attacks and chronic diabetes. Papa Doc died. His son. roly-poly Jean-Claude. 19, whom Duvalier had designated as his successor last January, was immediately sworn in as President...
...Cold Turkey clucks along, it does prove fitfully amusing. Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding make their film debut, delightfully impersonating a number of TV newsmen, including "Paul Hardly," and their CBS de resistance, "Walter Chronic." But these benign entertainers are essentially aural comedians, and their limitations underline the show's. Many films have been written specifically for TV. Cold Turkey seems the first to have been made for radio...
Government officials continued to deny that Duvalier was near death. For years he has been plagued by diabetes and chronic heart trouble. A few months ago, Duvalier passed out in the midst of a private audience with a Western diplomat...
...cost of Allende's revolution has proved higher than many of his countrymen yet realize. So far, direct controls have checked Chile's chronic inflation, which last year galloped away at the rate of 34.9%. The controls have crippled Chilean businessmen by forcing them to hold down prices while having to pay higher taxes and higher wages to employees. Allende has granted cost-of-living increases ranging from 34.9% for public employees to 47% for private workers. The government's policies have also laid the foundation for renewed inflation by increasing the money supply 55.2% during...
President Richard Nixon may have been normally cool and purposeful in handling Howard K. Smith on ABC last week, but he is a chronic fumbler compared with the British Prime Minister, Lord North, fielding Eric Sevareid on CBS next week. Prime Minister who? Frederick Lord North, the chap who presided over the loss of the American colonies and who is re-embodied by Actor Peter Ustinov in a new CBS documentary project. The series, titled The American Revolution: 1770-1783, will include perhaps a dozen such "interviews" by the time of the nation's 1976 bicentennial. In the premiere...