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Outside the National Palace in Port-au-Prince last week, bands beat out the latest popular rhythm: Papa Doc Forever. Crowds of peasants and workers stood dutifully in the blazing sun as little Haiti's Dictator Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, 54, smiled benignly, then allowed that "forever" was just about what he had in mind. Bowing to overwhelming popular demand, he said, he had consented to rule tiny Haiti as President for life...
...Duvalier has ruthlessly liquidated every real or suspected foe of his regime. The 5,000-man Tonton Macoute, Duvalier's plain-clothes bully boys, shake down merchants and terrorize peasants, while his militiamen engage in macabre voodoo orgies, playing on the belief of the superstitious population that Papa Doc has occult powers. Haitian exiles, arriving in the Dominican Republic at the other end of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, say that the rites have included sewing up newborn babies inside sacrificial bulls. At the end of Duvalier's constitutional term last year, when he skipped elections and simply...
...Haiti's murderous Dictator François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier survived efforts, applauded by the U.S., to overthrow him last spring, looked on with stony satisfaction last month when the U.S. quietly resumed full diplomatic relations. His country is poverty-stricken and in a state of chaos...
Harvard's All-American Dave Abramson furthered his string of straight wins at the expense of the Indian's captain Doc Davis in the 200 freestyle. Abramson's time was 1:56:5. Harry Turner also beat Davis in the 500 freestyle with a time...
...doctors agreed that the best thing they can do for such patients is to let them vent their feelings and not censure them. No one will go to a doctor and complain merely of unhappiness, because that is not acceptable, but unhappiness along with constipation is acceptable, and the doc tor must treat both. He can prescribe medication for the constipation easily enough, but for the unhappiness, said Dr. Stainbrook, he must offer the treatment recommended by British Psychiatrist Michael Balint: his time, his personality and his attention. He can do this merely by listening attentively, and thus convincing...