Word: docs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that kind. Though Aristide last week called for "swift and definitive action," he indicated in an interview with TIME and two other publications that invasion was still not what he had in mind. He mentioned correctly that U.S. pressure had helped dislodge previous Haitian strongmen, such as "Baby Doc" Duvalier and Henri Namphy, without the use of force. (He failed to add that the same corrupt and repressive clique continued in power...
...Barnes has twice been detained by police -- the reporters feel a dispiriting sense of deja vu. "For older Haitians," says Diederich, who once ran the newspaper Haiti Sun, "the current crisis is like a rerun of an old horror movie." Diederich had just been expelled from Haiti when "Papa Doc" Duvalier thwarted President Kennedy's attempt to remove him from power in 1963. "The lesson of Papa Doc's defying the U.S. has not been lost on those who hold power in Haiti today," adds Diederich. Barnes, Booth and Diederich have all reread Graham Greene's 1966 novel The Comedians...
...more conventional movie figures who fare best in this lugubrious context. Dennis Quaid is Doc Holliday, the tubercular gunman-gambler, who gallantly and sardonically confronts his mortality, and Joanna Going plays Josie, the smart, spunky romantic who is Earp's last great passion. These are familiar, forthright characters, and the actors energize the film by playing them with headlong confidence...
...left with only the funeral option: live with the North Korea bomb until the Kims die -- or at least until the old man is gone, on the theory that the son can be muscled more easily than the father. It worked that way in Haiti when Baby Doc took control following Papa Doc's death. Perhaps the same could happen with the Kims...
...When we were fighting around the casino, one of our guys stepped forward and got shot. I went to get him with our chief medic. Some snipers fired at us, and the doc was killed instantly. The man we went to help died during the night. His brains were running down his forehead, and we couldn't have saved him even if we had had an operating room...