Word: docs
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...substitute for the Virginia Squires of the old American Basketball Association, headlined in the early '70s by an Afro-puffed University of Massachusetts underclassman from Roosevelt, N.Y. "I only played 20 minutes a game, and I didn't mind," Twardzik says, "because I could sit and enjoy Doc. I remember thinking 'They're paying me to watch this guy play.' On the bench, we'd elbow each other and whisper, 'Did you see that? God, did you see that?' " Gravity never had any pull with...
...with her husband, their two small children and assorted relatives in a large villa up the hill from Cannes. She still places phone orders with the most expensive shops in Paris, but life is more idle than idyllic for Michele Duvalier and exiled Haitian Dictator Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. For starters, the couple is forbidden to leave the area by the French government, which has also frozen $124 million in cash and property pending litigation of a suit by the Haitian government. And since fleeing Haiti last February, they have been shunned by locals, attacked by the international press...
...delegates to a 61-member commission charged with writing Haiti's 23rd constitution. The voting was held on schedule, but less than 10% of the country's estimated 2.9 million eligible voters cast ballots. Despite heady days of promise last February after President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier fled to exile in France, Haitians exercised their democratic franchise last week with a whisper...
...unrest surrounding the sudden overthrow of Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier's regime in February has kept travelers away from Haiti, and last week the 89-year-old hotel closed its doors. All its furnishings are being put up for sale, but modern-day Haitians do not seem particularly interested in relics from a bygone era. The brightly painted wooden nameplates that identified the Anne Bancroft Suite and other celebrity rooms went for $4 each, and the famed mahogany bar remains unsold despite its modest asking price...
...island's television and radio stations carried live broadcasts of the trial of Luc Desyr, 62, chief of secret police for Baby Doc and before him for his father Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, who died in 1971. The trial, on charges that included illegal arrest, torture and murder, provided most Haitians with their first live view of Desyr. During the Duvalier years, he was a shadowy figure whose picture never appeared in newspapers. A short man in a starched white shirt who now walks slowly and with a cane, Desyr protested his innocence over and over, producing a thin black...