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...these fugitives range from 100,000 to 300,000 of Haiti's 7 million people. Marronage has its roots in the 17th century, when slaves in the French colony began escaping from plantations into the mountains. After the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a 1991 military coup, his supporters returned to the ways of their ancestors. They know the tricks of disguise -- men often dress as merchant women -- but the fear and frustration never fade. Families live apart, sometimes for years at a time. "You learn to live like a bat," says Aristide. "You fly at night...
...Leader to his father's Great Leader. He also became culture czar, producing movies and lecturing on the art of opera. Kim Il Sung spared nothing to burnish his son's reputation. The younger Kim was credited, years after the supposed incident, with saving his father from a 1967 coup attempt. He was named General Secretary of the Workers' Party. Though without military training, Kim Jong Il was elected in 1991 to succeed his father as commander of the country's 1.2 million-strong armed forces. In the past few years, he has reportedly taken on the daily work...
...most terrifying episode in a week when Haitians fled their stricken country in record numbers. More than 5,000 refugees took to boats during the week; on Monday alone, 1,486 were picked up at sea, the largest single number in one day since the September 1991 military coup that overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. With the current processing center on a Navy ship off Jamaica already jammed, President Bill Clinton was forced to reopen the old facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba to handle the overflow. "This should have been anticipated," said Ernest Preeg, a senior...
...Haiti if the military rulers don't "step down" by the end of the year. "We don't expect the military regime to be there six months from now," U.S. Haiti adviser Bill Gray said. At one point in an interview with ABC News, Gray upped the ante: "The coup leaders will not be allowed to stay in power." In the meantime, the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince bought radio air time on local stations to broadcast messages in local Creole warning fleeing Haitians: "If you take a new boat, one thing is certain...
Those were heady accomplishments for someone in his early 20s, but Kirstein's greatest coup lay a few years ahead, in 1933, when he persuaded choreographer George Balanchine to come to America. The brilliant Russian emigre and the well-heeled native son built up what became the New York City Ballet, in its prime the most influential dance company on earth...