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...youngsters who died that evening was called "Doc." No one remembered his full name; because he was a medic, they had all called him Doc, and that was good enough. He had crawled out into the enemy's field of fire to drag one of the wounded into the hedgerow that was shielding the company, and he was killed by a burst from an AK-47. Men rarely cry in a spot like that, but some of them did then. That is how much they loved Doc...
Helicopters managed to bring in more ammunition and to evacuate the dead and wounded; but because of the mortars, they could not risk bringing in food, which had a lower priority. After dark, we began to think about how hungry we were. Then someone remembered that Doc's mother had sent him a can of Almond Kisses from Barton's in New York. It still was in his pack...
...first it seemed ghoulish to me, sitting there in a hole in the ground eating a dead man's Almond Kisses. But none of Doc's buddies thought of it that way. For them the cellophane-wrapped candy was a Eucharist. It was Doc. And in a way, he was Still with them...
Knox immediately called Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, Haiti's 21 -year-old President for Life. The Haitian government said that it could not find or identify 19 of the requested prisoners, but agreed to release the other twelve. The mustachioed leader of the kidnapers then demanded a ransom of $1,000,000. In Washington, Secretary of State William Rogers flatly refused to pay the sum out of fear of encouraging kidnapers elsewhere...
...Papa Doc is dead, and the title of President for Life has passed to his son Jean-Claude, 21. Under the comparatively benign rule of "Baby Doc," the activities of the dread secret police known as the Tontons Macoutes (Creole for bogeymen) have been curbed. The ostentatious display of military presence has been muted, although rifle-bearing police and militiamen can still be seen on the streets of Port-au-Prince, the capital. Even more important from the tourists' viewpoint Jean-Claude has extended a welcoming hand to foreign investors and visitors...