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...last weekend I went to Pittsburgh, and I discovered there that baseball still is the national pastime. Visiting a 70-year-old couple, the topic of conversation ranged from Stargell's stride to Oliver's glove. This couple knew Doc Eliss's repertoire of pitches better than Gil Hodges...
...Haitian exiles began staging small guerrilla landings in the 1960s, Papa Doc's behavior became even more bizarre. After the leader of a guerrilla group had been killed in a skirmish, Papa Doc had the man's head cut off and brought to the palace. There Papa Doc supposedly used his occult powers to conjure information about the guerrilla band's plans from the dead man's skull. There were rumors that Papa Doc had taken to torturing prisoners himself in the palace basement...
...general assumption had been that Papa Doc's death would set off a political explosion in Haiti. Thus it was a major surprise when the country took the event calmly. At first, only a small group of curious gathered outside the palace fence, and only a few extra police and troops stood guard in Port-au-Prince. By the time of the funeral, the crowds and security forces had grown larger. Nonetheless, the city remained peaceful...
...radio address to the country, Jean-Claude vowed to carry on his father's "revolution" with the same "energy and intransigence." The power behind Baby Doc is almost certain to be his elder sister, Marie-Denise 29. whom many Haitians regard as the old dictator's only true spiritual offspring. During the past several years, she has deftly shunted aside possible rivals within the palace inner circle...
Died. Dr. Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, 64, demagogic ruler of Haiti since 1957 (see THE WORLD...