Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the hopes of Americans and Haitians alike, Namphy's junta never demonstrated a commitment to fair elections. As early as last June, Namphy attempted to wrest control of the voting process from the electoral council. Ensuing protests forced the general to back down, but not before soldiers had shot 30 Haitians dead. Two months later a presidential candidate was hacked to death by machete. In October a second candidate was shot fatally. In neither instance was an investigation publicly ordered. Last month the electoral council, citing the new constitution's ten-year ban on Duvalierists seeking public office, disqualified...
...Most Haitians think new elections would do little more than install a pro- military puppet regime. Namphy has pledged a fair contest, but many people are bitterly skeptical. "To the sons of the Duvalierists, words are like bullets: they are both used indiscriminately," says a former army officer who, like most Haitians, is fearful of reprisals if his name is seen in print. While Washington has called on Namphy to provide a "free, fair and secure electoral process," a U.S. official concedes, "We frankly don't maintain much hope that they will do the right thing." In Haiti, a consensus...
Before the crash, working 100 hours a week was a fair trade-off for gaining invaluable education in the investment banking field. But opinions have changed now, as analyst programs have lost educational value and left more drudge work to trainees...
...treated like gentlemen." As the tension mounted, however, there were signs that the inmates' fears and frustrations might turn against their captives. On Friday morning an Oakdale inmate viciously stabbed one hostage in the back of the neck. Fellow prisoners immediately delivered both the victim, who was listed in fair condition by the local hospital, and the assailant, a mentally ill detainee, to police. At week's end tempers appeared to be fraying in Atlanta as well. Ominous threats of "We'll kill them all" were heard over the inmates' walkie-talkies. One Atlanta inmate was stabbed in a scuffle...
Whether leftist, rightist or none of the above, the New Age has attracted a fair amount of criticism on philosophical and ethical grounds. "A lot of it is a cop-out, an escape from reality, an anti-intellectual movement denying rationality," says Alan Dundes, a professor of anthropology and folklore at the University of California, Berkeley. "The New Age movement reflects anxieties of one sort or another -- the threat of nuclear warfare, the President running a vigilante action out of the White House, nurses accused of killing patients. People look at all this and say, 'If this is the Establishment...