Word: haiti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eighteen months ago, before squaring off against world illiteracy on a broad scale, U.N.'s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) decided to try a small-scale test of its methods in Haiti's remote Marbial Valley, where illiteracy was the rule. To the valley six months ago went a team of UNESCO educators to begin the experiment. Last week, Lake Success announced that the project was being suspended. The UNESCO officials, said U.N., had come down with something almost as common in the Marbial Valley as illiteracy: malaria...
...from through with Haiti, however. Last week it dispatched a 12-man survey mission to Port-au-Prince. Assignment: to advise the Haitian government on all the island's problems, including illiteracy...
...There (Sun. 2 p.m., CBS), covering Toussaint L'Ouverture's liberation of Haiti...
Color: Green. The big blow hit the Williamsburg directly abeam as she turned into narrow Windward Passage between Haiti and Cuba. Newsmen on the sturdier, broader-beamed Greenwich Bay, preceding the presidential craft, radiotelephoned the Williamsburg: "Can you give us any local color?" The reply: "Only what you can see looking out over...
...wear shoes, they would work harder to get the money to buy them; if they worked harder, they would produce more food and make more money. Besides, a well-dressed people would make a better impression on the tourists President Estimé hopes to see flocking to Haiti to share its easygoing life and to visit the brooding ruins of Christophe's vast citadel...