Word: docs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haiti's Dictator. Françpois Duvalier himself was on hand, surrounded by helmeted palace guards and blue-denimed militiamen. He had given orders for his men to explain to Haitians just what would happen in their tiny Caribbean Negro republic if anyone should try to topple "Papa Doc...
...first test of the 1914 Harrison Law, which prevented doctors from giving drugs to addicts: "The cops finally arrested a pill roller who was running a shooting gallery. You come in, say, 'Doc, I got warts.' Bung he gives you heroin. He was a quack...
...past five years, the U.S. has pumped some $43.5 million into Haiti, the small Negro Caribbean country misruled by Strongman François Duvalier. A respected back-country doctor before he went into politics, "Papa Doc,'' as he calls himself, has become a ham-fisted tyrant, illegally perpetuating himself in power. His private army of Tonton Macoutes. meaning bogeymen in Creole, crushes the opposition and shakes down businessmen. The bogeymen even insist on distributing the U.S. gifts of food and taking their cut; the U.S. refuses, and so the food sits rotting in a Port-au-Prince warehouse...
...Club occasionally features big name out-of-town performers like Doc Watson, Ralph Rinzler and John Herald of the Greenbriar Boys, Jesse Fuller, Reverend Gary Davis and Mike Seeger of the New Lost City Ramblers...
...farther between but less interesting to boot. In general, coffee-house performances are better (and usually cheaper) than the concerts. Occassionally, though, the price of the ticket will be justified by an artist not usually seen in these parts or an outstanding combination of artists like Eric Von Schmidt, Doc Watson and the Greenbriar Boys in their Feb. 9 concert at Jordan Hall...