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...national government radio yesterday announced that a member of the new Cabinet, Minister of Justice Gerard Gourgue, formerly president of the Haitian Human Rights Commission, had obtained the release of 26 political prisoners. Further details were not immediately available...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haiti Settles After Duvalier Escape | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...farm produce dries up from the countryside and the United States doesn't help out, within a week Port-au-Prince will be in a starvation situation," said George Butler of the Haitian Development Foundation, a private organization that lends money to small businesses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haiti Settles After Duvalier Escape | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

Duke is dead. Or so you Doonesbury fans thought until Monday, when cartoonist Garry Trudeau revealed that his character Duke was still alive, having become a comotose zombie after receiving a massage from a woman that worked for a Haitian voodoo center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Find Explains Duke's `Death' | 2/8/1986 | See Source »

Wade Davis, a 28-year-old Canadian pursuing a Ph.D. in Harvard's Biology Department, discovered a rare Haitian drug that can actually turn people into zombies by lowering their metabolic rates to make them appear dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Find Explains Duke's `Death' | 2/8/1986 | See Source »

...zombie drug, resembling dry black dirt, contains toads, sea worms, lizards, tarantulas, and human bones. When rubbed on someone's skin, (as the Haitian masseuse did to Duke), the victim becomes nauseous and begins to have breathing difficulties in a number of hours. Following a pins and needles sensation, the victim becomes paralyzed, his lips turning blue from lack of oxygen. Soon, his metabolism is so low that his condition is indistinguishable from death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Find Explains Duke's `Death' | 2/8/1986 | See Source »

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