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...Lafontant, a gynecologist who was the muscle behind the regime of exiled dictator Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier from 1981 to 1985, turned out to be a general without an army. In an unprecedented gesture of support for democracy, the Haitian military, led by army Chief of Staff General Herard Abraham, declared its allegiance to the government. Less than 12 hours after the coup began, soldiers stormed the palace, freed Pascal-Trouillot and dragged off Lafontant and 15 of his henchmen in handcuffs...
...theological populism, which is based on restoring the dignity and material well-being of the country's 6.2 million people. Even before the results were official, Port-au- Prince erupted in spontaneous street demonstrations bigger than the ones that followed the departure of the hated Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier in 1986. As police in riot gear nervously looked on, thousands of jubilant Haitians waved tree branches as a sign of joy and shouted, "Aristide is President!" Aristide's victory, said Haitian economist Gerard Pierre Charles, marks a breakthrough in "the people's historic struggle for democracy against authoritarianism...
These two setbacks for the much-touted "carrotdrug" prompted the editorial board of the Journalof the National Cancer Institute to wonder intheir June issue: "Beta Carotene Didn't PreventCancer: What's Up, Doc...
Roger Lafontant, former chief of Baby Doc Duvalier's brutal Tonton Macoutes, has added a strange new chapter to Haiti's political scene by running for President in the Dec. 16 elections. He enters the race with an unusual handicap: a warrant for his arrest was issued in July for crimes he allegedly committed with the Macoutes. Haiti's attorney general is reminding citizens that anyone who shelters the strongman is subject to prosecution. With typical swagger, Lafontant opposes the presence of outside observers at the elections, and officials fear his campaign will serve as a beachhead for the return...
...fullest measure of Marsalis' musicianship comes from other musicians -- particularly the veteran jazzmen he so admires. Trumpeter Doc Cheatham, 85, calls Marsalis "one of the greatest young trumpet players around. He's at the top level on his horn and improving every day." Bass player Milt Hinton, 80, says Marsalis "stacks up miles ahead of" such past greats as Armstrong and Henry ("Red") Allen in mastery of the instrument. "But he doesn't yet have as much creativity blues-wise and dirt- and funk-wise as they had because he hasn't had to live it." Marsalis' main limitation...