Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the persistent efforts of the Organization of American States to settle that very question, Haiti's political crisis appears no closer to resolution now than it did in the bloody days after the coup. Every attempt at a political compromise that might allow the populist hero Aristide to return in some restricted capacity has met with fierce resistance from military hard- liners and their Big Business allies, as well as grumbling from many in the middle class and the government bureaucracy. As if sensing greater misery ahead, record numbers of Haitians fled by sea last week to U.S. shores...
...Haiti's poorest citizens, the term "quality of life" is a cruel mockery. Since the Sept. 30 military coup that deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and precipitated a hemisphere-wide economic embargo, malnutrition and disease have spread at a rate well beyond the usual disquieting norm. In rural areas, hungry peasant farmers eat the seeds they should be planting. Twenty miles from the capital, immunization programs have been curtailed, a casualty of government efforts to conserve fuel that make refrigeration of vaccines impossible. As a result, children are dying of measles. Yet in the slums, people do not complain...
...Mick refuses to die; he has resurfaced in Freejack, the sci-fi thriller about the manipulation of dead bodies in a futuristic nuclear wasteland. If he's hoping to achieve some type of motion picture coup, he might be well advised to try again, judging by the movie's reviews...
...sometimes cute, in part because director Sharon Ott opts for a too stylized manner of acting. The second half is riveting. This is a story of downward mobility, about a miner turned dentist (sans diploma) who winds up defrocked and doomed in an abandoned mine. In a stunning coup de theatre, the multipurpose set ends by dropping chutes, heaving dust and becoming the industrial hellhole that he struggled, and failed, to escape. W.A.H...
Castro's Council of State made it clear that it hoped to scare off opponents, foreign and domestic. At least 60 human-rights activists have been arrested on the island in the six months since the August coup precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union, Cuba's principal backer. "The idea," said the council in a statement, "is to stop such loathsome actions from being repeated...