Word: docs
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Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier has fallen on hard times. Following his 1986 flight from Haiti to the French Riviera, he installed his shopaholic wife Michele and their children in a palatial home near Cannes. Two years ago, Mme. Duvalier divorced him, taking the children and a large chunk of the assets. Duvalier quickly ran through his remaining funds -- once estimated at $400 million -- and now lives with his mother Simone, 80, in a scruffy villa with no telephone (cut off for unpaid bills) and a broken wire fence surrounding an unkempt garden. Last week he disappeared for parts unknown...
...side, according to his doctor and confidant. Physician Li Zhisui writes in his 663-page memoir, "The Private Life of Chairman Mao," that the iconic leader was a decadent, selfish cutthroat who enjoyed nightly massages, orgiastic romps and extramarital sex with young girls. Among the other grisly details: the doc says Mao didn't care about spreading a sexually-transmitted disease, stayed in his bathrobe weeks at a time and drank green tea in lieu of brushing his teeth...
...junta's friends pose a graver problem. They fear that Aristide's supporters, if not Aristide himself, will seek revenge for abuses and killings committed during the three years since the coup. There is a long tradition of vengeance when power shifts. When Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier fell in 1986, crowds surged through Port-au-Prince seeking out members of the Tontons Macoutes and beating them to death. But Aristide's followers are just as afraid that weapons left in the hands of the military and its gangs of thugs will continue to be trained on them...
...Doc" Britton, 69, was a man of modest means. When he replaced the murdered Dr. David Gunn as a circuit-riding doctor for several abortion clinics in northern Florida, he realized he needed a vest. But instead of buying, he wore one constructed of manufacturer's scraps. Sometimes he worried that it was too short. "If they get me in the liver, that's pretty tough to patch," he told a reporter last February. Apparently he assumed that his assailant, aiming from a prudent distance in hopes of a clean getaway, would go for the largest target, the torso...
Patricia Coleman, one of Doc Britton's five children, says, "My father was an independent thinker who absolutely refused to be swayed by politics or what other people thought. He refused to be bullied." Yet some of his surviving colleagues are feeling vulnerable. "This has taken its toll," says Ashley Phillips, director of the WomanCare clinic in San Diego. "I don't know how much more of this we're supposed to take." Following the killing, several members of Congress demanded that the FBI begin infiltrating radical antiabortionist groups as it has the Ku Klux Klan in the past. Harsh...