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BORN. To Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, 31, portly President for Life of Haiti, and Michele Bennett Duvalier, 31: their first child, a son and heir apparent to the dictatorship set up by his grandfather Papa Doc; in Port-au-Prince. Name: François Nicolas Jean-Claude. Weight...
DIED. Arturo Umberto Illia, 82, courtly, honest and respected President of Argentina from 1963 until his ouster in a 1966 military coup; of lung disease; in Cordoba City, Argentina. A country doctor by profession, he was elected to the National Assembly in 1948 and dared openly to oppose the dictatorship of Juan Perón. On this national reputation, he was elected President, but his ineffectual administration could not reverse the country's economic slide or prevent the inevitable takeover by disgusted officers...
...picture was not always so gloomy. In the early 1970s, after nearly a decade of civil strife, the former Belgian Congo had achieved a measure of political stability under the dictatorship of President Mobutu Sese Seko. More important, the country was recognized as a treasure trove of gold, diamonds, oil, copper and cobalt. Banks rushed to extend credit. They were to rue the day. Notes one foreign banker in Kinshasa: "We did not do our sums properly...
Smith's remarks about foreign investment. In the interview, Smith did urge the West to give economic aid to Zimbabwe, but also warned that "there is the danger of the free world falling into the trap of aiding and abetting the establishment of a one-party Marxist dictatorship in a country that should be part of the free world...
...perform. And because the topic of the hour was the Polish government's move to outlaw Solidarity, his molten aversion to Communism bubbled to the surface. To test the sound equipment and his own pipes, he said firmly: "My fellow Americans, yesterday the Polish government, a military dictatorship, a bunch of no-good lousy bums...