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JEAN-CLAUDE DUVALIER Haiti He used the Tontons Macoutes, a brutal secret-police force, to exercise control. Now Baby Doc lives comfortably in Paris, worshipping voodoo and studying solar energy
DIED. JIA LANPO, 92, Chinese archaeologist who directed the Peking Man excavation; in Beijing. Over six decades, Jia helped unearth a record 45 Homo erectus fossils from the Zhoukoudian site near Beijing. He discovered the first Chinese hominid fossils dating from the Pleistocene era that began 1.8 million years ago...
Like the earlier attempts to prosecute former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, the Milosevic trial further erodes a time-honored tradition of peacefully easing dictators out of power by offering them comfortable retirement on the French Riviera. Would Pinochet or Haiti's "Baby Doc" Duvalier have handed over power if...
Aristide has always been the Third World leader the U.S. thinks it ought to like but can't. He was the priest who helped topple the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986--and then the elected President whom thousands of U.S. G.I.s restored to power after a military coup a decade ago...
My dear friend JEAN LEOPOLD DOMINIQUE grew up in a land of oppression. He came of age under Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier. But this product of the privileged "elite" fell passionately in love with his country and its vast peasant population. After studying in Paris, Jean worked to help his...