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Still they come, for Haiti is both a desperately poor country?its per capita income of $260 a year is among the world's lowest?and an oppressive dictatorship, ruled by Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. The Reagan Administration holds that nearly all the Haitian refugees are fleeing their country to escape poverty, not repression, and are thus not eligible to be admitted as political refugees. Others believe that many of the refugees are indeed entitled to political asylum, and cite evidence of those returned being beaten and tortured in Haitian prisons. As Father G�rard Jean-Juste, a Haitian...
There was no doubt among Solidarity's leaders that Walesa should attend the session. What was at issue was whether he should be authorized to negotiate alone on the behalf of the entire diverse union. "We want democracy, not a dictatorship!" yelled one commission member above the raucous uproar at the meeting. Shouted Radical Jan Rolicz, who is challenging Walesa's current efforts to hold back the organization he helped to found: "The time has come to think about a personnel change in the union, even though Walesa is still a symbol of unity." Jozef Dudek, another radical...
Papandreou's victory is the culmination of a quixotic, often controversial career. As a law student in Athens, he was arrested in 1939 and tortured for forming a Trotskyite group and publishing a newspaper opposed to the dictatorship of John Metaxas. The next year Papandreou fled to the U.S., where he earned a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard, became an American citizen, served in the Navy as a medical assistant and married his current wife, Chicago-born Margaret Chant. (They have since had four children.) Only in 1963, when his father, soon to become Prime Minister, persuaded Andreas...
...alienation from the U.S. The Johnson Administration made certain statements critical of the [military] dictatorship [that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974], but in substance the U.S. and NATO accepted it. The second blow came in 1974 when Turkish troops armed by NATO and the U.S., using arms in violation of American law, invaded Cyprus. The third blow, and one still very much alive, is Turkey's claim on the Aegean while the U.S. modernizes Turkey's arsenal...
...lands along the Gulf Coast, which the Spanish, hard up as always, put on the market for ?1 million in 1819. If Lord Liverpool had not been so foolishly parsimonious, that sun-favored peninsula would now be a law-abiding and God-fearing American province instead of the petty dictatorship it is, whose only exports are drugs, disease and depravity...