Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fort Smith...
...trade proposals, and his health care bill. In shelving the President's proposal for an Urban Affairs Department, the House Rules Committee fired the first shot in the expected Congressional battle over that program, though on an unexpected front. The action resembled somewhat the South's firing on Fort Sumter 101 years ago: it began a struggle which had to come, but came as a bit of a surprise...
...Tonton Macoute, estimated to number 5,000, take care of individual oppositionists. Uncounted hundreds have been hauled off to Fort Dimanche, outside Port-au-Prince; some have been blinded by the beatings, some deafened, some killed. Newspaper Editor Madame Yvonne Hakim-Rimpel was kidnaped from her home by Tonton Macoutes. She was taken to a local lovers' lane in St. Martin woods, beaten, raped, and mutilated. Says a foreign diplomat: "Duvalier's real contribution to Haitian history is government by gang. He is the king of the bogeymen...
...This was after Jackie's lookalike, Stephanie Laye Javits, wife of the nephew of New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, was seen Twisting at a Fort Lauderdale nightclub, precipitating a news report that it was the First Lady herself (TIME, Jan. 5). The White House indignantly set the matter straight, making clear that Jackie would never Twist in public, certainly not when her father-in-law was seriously...
OWEN CLAYTON Fort Worth...