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BORN. To Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, 31, portly President for Life of Haiti, and Michele Bennett Duvalier, 31: their first child, a son and heir apparent to the dictatorship set up by his grandfather Papa Doc; in Port-au-Prince. Name: François Nicolas Jean-Claude. Weight: 7...
EXPECTING. Michèle Bennett Duvalier, 31, and Jean Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, 31, Haiti's dictator and President for Life; their first child; in December. Early last month, Haiti's First Lady made a secret predawn flight to Miami for an amniocentesis test, which revealed that Baby...
Greene was outraged by the decision. "In my entire career as a writer," he said, "it is only the second book that's ever been banned. The first was The Comedians, and that was Papa Doc who seized it" (François Duvalier, Haiti's tyrannical dictator who...
The majority of these detainees were Haitians picked up along the Florida coast. Rather like the boat people of Viet Nam, the Haitians risked their lives to flee starvation and poverty in "Baby Doc" Duvalier's dictatorial regime, making the 700-mile journey in rickety, overcrowded vessels. Many drowned...
PART OF THE AMERICAN friendliness toward the Haitian government stems from Reagan's wish to establish a military base in Haiti. Ambassador Vernon Walters (former CIA deputy director) has been negotiating for a site on Tortuga Island. Mole St. Nicolas, Gonave Island or Saint Marc Point. Apparently, Duvalier will allow...