Word: docs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When World War II ended, most non-Communist nations began dismantling the intricate economic controls that had been necessary to cope with the military emergency. India was a major excep tion, for tight regulation of the economy fitted neatly into Jawaharlal Nehru's doc trinaire socialist blueprint for his newly independent nation. Many of the con trols on business survive to this day, and they are charged with retarding In dia's growth in the past two decades...
...help lure back some of the country's moneywise mulattoes-as well as other investors and tourists-Papa Doc called a rare press conference last month in his palace in Port-au-Prince. "It is urgent," he said, "for every Haitian-wherever he is-to come home and work with the President and Cabinet and with every foreign investor that Haiti needs for its development. The Haitian soil belongs to every Haitian." The "explosive stage" of his revolution was over, Papa Doc promised, and now Haiti was entering the more humane "administrative stage...
...sure enough, last week both soldiers and Tonton Macoute were indeed less visible in Port-au-Prince. Cars traveling through the city were not stopped and searched. What's more, Papa Doc had even expressed an interest in visiting Argentina next August-a rare risk for any dictator afraid of losing...
After nine small guerrilla invasions and as many bomb plots, some Haitian exiles feel that Papa Doc should simply be left alone to mismanage himself into collapse. Even at that, there is strong doubt that he would ever surrender office voluntarily. He is bound up almost mystically with his job, and now seems to believe the neon slogan ("I am the Haitian flag, one and indivisible") that glares above a Port-au-Prince city park. What seems more likely is that some time, suddenly, in a peculiarly Haitian way with little warning, Duvalier will be gone. Who would come after...
...child would be in an oxygen tent in a hospital, festooned with tubes, watched over by bustling nurses or electronic monitors, banished from her parents (visiting hours, 9-11 a.m.), and lucky to get a brief visit from the doctor once or twice a day. Instead of Old Doc's bedside manner, the modern physician depends on a panoply of new skills, drugs and facilities that save many a patient his predecessor would have lost. The father image has been supplanted by the skilled technician whose head is far more important than his heart. Trouble is, the patient misses...