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...deal less lethal than some of the swizzle sticks used to stir it. So warned the U.S. Public Health Service, which acted after a recent party at Sylvan Hills High School in suburban Atlanta. As favors, the students received swizzle sticks topped by a little head fashioned like a Haitian voodoo figure. Within an hour, about 50 of the partygoers broke out in a rash, much like ivy poisoning. It could have been worse, reported the U.S. Occupational Health laboratory in Cincinnati...
...blame on the diet. But South Carolina's Dr. Groom was not to be stampeded. Pathologist Edward E. McKee (who did all the autopsies, did not know where a particular heart came from until afterward) had checked the aortas with equal care, found surprisingly that just as many Haitian as South Carolinian aortas were diseased. To Dr. Groom, this indicated that something besides diet was to blame, though he did not rule out the possibility that a dietary clue might yet be found...
Died. Ernest G. Chauvet, 69, Haitian delegate to the U.N., owner of Haiti's oldest newspaper, Le Nouvelliste; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
This is a promising first novel that breaks a lot of its promises. It promises a richly informative account of voodoo and the Haitian mind and temper, but much of it is just tom-tommyrot. It promises distinction of thought, but a jungle growth of involuted sentences often chokes meaning in mannerism. It promises a clash between the life of instinct and the life-in-death of inhibition, but the conflict is reduced to a kind of nagging suburbanality about a dissatisfied wife. Still, the tropical scenery is far more fascinating than most suburbs...
False Promises. To avoid arrest, Talamas fled to the U.S. embassy. But a few hours later, on the advice of U.S. embassy officials who twice received Haitian government assurances that he would not be mistreated, he surrendered to the police. Next morning, Colonel Louis Roumain, the junta's foreign affairs chief, informed the inquiring embassy that during the night. Talamas assaulted an officer and in the "scuffle" suffered a "heart attack" and died. Accompanied by U.S. officials, three U.S. doctors examined the body, found it a mass of ugly bruises and welts, and the State Department issued the official...