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...tensions and torments equal those in southern Florida, especially Bade County and its central city, Miami. More than half the Cuban refugees have been encamped there, joined by the vast majority of 30,000 black Haitians fleeing extreme poverty and the political repression of Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. Thus Dade County confronts a challenge distinctive in American history: absorbing about 100,000 new residents, roughly equal to the population of Roanoke, Va., who for the most part are poor, unskilled, and unversed in the language of their new country, and doing it in just four months...
...fact that the new counterforce policy is a modification of existing doc trine has raised questions about why Carter has dramatized the change by making it a Presidential Directive. Brzezinski was the chief advocate of the move, while Brown is thought to have favored keeping the policy an internal Pentagon matter. A number of critics believe that Carter wants to publicize the matter because he needs to appear tougher on defense is sues to blunt criticism from G.O.P. Nominee Ronald Reagan. Says Herbert Scoville Jr., former CIA deputy director for research and now a strong advocate of arms reduction: "They...
DIED. Milburn Stone, 75, veteran character actor who as the vinegary yet avuncular Doc Adams in TV's popular Gunsmoke series played friend and foil to James Arness's Matt Dillon and Amanda Blake's Miss Kitty throughout the show's 20-year (1955-75) run; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif. Stone became so strongly identified with the role, for which he won an Emmy, that he once quipped, "To everyone except my family I'm Doc. Getting so I have to restrain myself from making house calls...
...salute and the exploding of $100,000 worth of fireworks greeted Haiti's President for Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, 28, and his bride Michèle Bennett, 27. The couple emerged under crossed sabers from the freshly refurbished cathedral of Port-au-Prince after a $3 million wedding, the country's most lavish social event in two decades. Said the bride, with a smile: "We'll make lots of children and live happily ever after...
...Duvalier's marriage to Michèle-a divorcee whose former father-in-law once tried to overthrow Baby Doc's late father, "Papa Doc" Duvalier-signal a possible new moderation? Probably not. The real significance seemed to be the consolidation of Baby Doc's power within the family fiefdom, in which his mother, Simone, for instance, still holds the title of First Lady of the Republic. In this dynastic system, a princely heir will help ensure perpetual rule...