Word: docs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning last week, a band of Haitian exiles led by former army officers waded back into their homeland. Still dripping wet, silver-haired General Léon Cantave, 53, quickly organized his meager forces. Then they all marched off to overthrow, or at least harass, François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, Haiti's brutal dictator...
...many enemies of Haiti's Dictator Francois Duvalier were lined up in a row, the man in front would be Clement Barbot, 50, a onetime friend and devoted lieutenant. Short, wiry, with a pencil-thin mustache, Barbot organized "Papa Doc's" dread Tonton Macoute, his secret police; he was the chief's personal bodyguard, supervised the regime's tortures and executions-and was himself tossed into jail for 18 months when he seemed to be getting too ambitious. After his release last year, Barbot launched a campaign of terror against his old mentor. To Haitians...
Last April four of Duvalier's bodyguards were shot down while escorting two of the dictators children to school. The children were unharmed, but the message was clear. Just target practice, wrote Barbot in a letter to Papa Doc. A few weeks later, Barbot's men pounced on schoolhouses where peasants had been herded in like cattle, waiting to shout Vive Papa Doc at a government rally. Seven were killed-and word of the terror started to shake Duvalier's regime. Duvalier sent militia patrols to comb Port-au-Prince's festering slums. But Barbot laid...
Last week, as the deadline neared, it had become abundantly clear that the postponement had not brought the two sides any closer to agreement. J. E. ("Doc") Wolfe, chief negotiator for all of the 195 companies involved, said at a press conference that the unions were still trying hard to "blackjack" the railroads into an agreement. H. E. ("Ed") Gilbert, president of the 80,000-member A.F.L.-C.I.O. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, declared in a speech that "management's attitude of 'no bargaining' has brought the collective bargaining process in our industry to the brink...
Died. Jack ("Doc") Kearns, 80, boxing promoter behind six world champions, among them Mickey Walker, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, but none so great -or lucrative-as Jack Dempsey, whom Kearns met in 1917, within two years brought to the championship and later used to drum up the first million-dollar gates (against "Orchid Man" Georges Carpentier, Luis Angel Firpo); after a long illness; in Miami...