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...wrote historian Claude Mazauric in the Communist Party newspaper L'Humanite. "The message of 1789 . . . is to build a society unconstrained by multinational capitalism." SOS-Racisme, a civil rights group, for example, will celebrate with a rally for Toussaint L'Ouverture, a former slave who led an 18th century Haitian rebellion against French colonialism. A group of prominent Parisian socialists is agitating to rename part of the Rue St.-Honore after Robespierre. "All revolutions have excesses," explains former Health Minister Leon Schwarzenberg, "and any revolution without them must be considered suspect." But so far Robespierre's defenders have...
...Haitian government source said shortly after daybreak three military officers, including Maj. Gen. Herard Abraham, the army commander in chief, had overthrown Avril and that Abraham was placed in charge of the government. The source spoke on condition of anonymity...
...Another Haitian source, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said the coup leaders included Gen. Guy Francois, commander of the Dessalines military barracks in Port-au-Prince; and Lt. Col. Himmler Rebu, commander of the Leopards battalion, an elite commando corps...
...immediate conclusion -- that the culprit is the Haitian boyfriend of her Austrian au pair girl -- will offend liberal sensibilities, especially since it turns out to be correct. Bellow has ruffled racial feathers before, notably in Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970) and The Dean's December (1982), and his new heroine's thoughts will not heal those old wounds: "These people came up from the tropical slums to outsmart New York, and with all the rules crumbling here as elsewhere, so that nobody could any longer be clear in his mind about anything, they could do it." But Clara is here...
...black unemployment in Dade County has risen to 10.4%, and the jobless rate for Hispanics has dropped to 5.8%. While Cubans have expanded their ownership of small businesses, Miami has one of the smallest black professional classes of any city its size. In recent years 70,000 hardworking Haitian immigrants have also begun to carve out a niche for themselves. Says Marvin Dunn, a black psychologist who co-authored a study of the 1980 riots: "A larger and larger segment of the black community is falling farther and farther behind the rest of us in income and in the quality...