Word: dominican
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...spent more than four decades on the Haiti watch. He ran the newspaper Haiti Sun for 14 years, until the Tontons Macoutes, "Papa Doc" Duvalier's ruthless police force, jailed and expelled him in 1963. After his deportation, Bernie continued to follow the country's plight from the Dominican Republic, Mexico and later Florida, where he is now based. The co-author of Papa Doc, the definitive history of the Duvalier regime, Diederich sees the current unrest as even more harrowing. "The key to the present terror is that no one is safe," he says. "Papa Doc usually picked...
Kattke claims to be helping the Haitians fashion a "reconciliation government that can pass muster." To help promote the idea that the military's plan represents a "Latin way out of this," he has enlisted Rafael Pantaleon, a former Dominican Republic ambassador to the U.N. Pantaleon is operating with the "complete knowledge and approval" of Dominican President Joaquin Balaguer, says Kattke, adding that Balaguer "hates Aristide from way back." Also in the Garrison-Kattke loop is Norman Bailey, chief economist for the National Security Council during the Reagan years, who explains, "We want to get Haiti back on track economically...
...Sufi movement was the dominant force within Islam. In the 15th century, facing persecution and exile, European Jews found solace in the mystical writings known as the Cabala. Even Western Christianity, which has been strongly suspicious of ineffability, had its mystical tradition, exemplified by such figures as the German Dominican Meister Eckehart and the Spanish saint, Teresa of Avila...
...Russian and East European cities. In the ( Third World the numbers are also staggering: an estimated 800,000 underage prostitutes in Thailand, 400,000 in India, 250,000 in Brazil and 60,000 in the Philippines. The newest international sites for child prostitution: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, China and the Dominican Republic...
...million people, 7.5 million of them children, are working as bonded laborers in factories, on farms and on construction projects, unable to pay off employer advances. The ILO warns that slavery-like practices also exist in countries as varied as Mauritania, India, Thailand, Peru, Brazil and the Dominican Republic...