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...women contributing to the show entitled "Common Threads" hail from just as many ethnic communities in Cambridge. Their traditionally woven fabric arts are complemented by detailed oral histories describing the artists back grounds in Greek, Italian, Haitian, Black, Portuguese, and other neighborhoods...
This incident and four others in recent years have sparked the most systematic inquiry ever made into the legendary voodoo phenomenon of zombiism. According to Haitian belief, a zombie is an individual who has been "killed" and then raised from the dead by malevolent voodoo priests known as "bocors." Though most educated Haitians deny the existence of zombies, Dr. Lamarque Douyon, Canadian-trained head of the Psychiatric Center in Port-au-Prince, has been trying for 25 years to establish the truth about the phenomenon, no easy matter in a land where the line between myth and reality is faintly...
...editor of an anti-Duvalier weekly newspaper was assassinated outside his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., after ignoring repeated warnings to stop criticizing Duvalier. According to the New York Times, Firming Joseph, editor of the Tribune D'Haiti, was in the middle of publishing a series called "157 Days in Haitian Jails" when someone identifying himself on the phone as a Haitian diplomat started warning Mr. Joseph to stop printing the series...
...fully reported in the Herald. Both the paper's staff and knowledgeable professional observers generally credit McMullan with most of the major innovations that have brought the Herald three Pulitzer Prizes in the past four years, including this year's award for its editorial crusade against the Haitian detention camps in Miami...
...Haitian connection is still puzzling. The disease apparently broke out on the impoverished Caribbean isle in 1981, at about the same time as it did in the U.S. Some experts suspect that AIDS is caused by a newly introduced viral agent from Africa, where Kaposi's is common, and may have been transmitted by Haitians who once worked in Zaïre. Port-au-Prince has many popular gay bars, and the disease could have been brought back to the U.S. by visiting Americans?or taken to Haiti by Americans in the first place. Recent investigations suggest that the disease...