Word: haitianize
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...plotters, General Juan José Valle, died in front of the rifles. The other, General Raul Tanco, escaped in disguise to asylum in the Haitian embassy. Pro-government vigilantes, waving machine guns, kidnaped him from his refuge and turned him over to the army for execution. But Aramburu, respecting the right of asylum, ordered Tanco to be sent back to the embassy, from where he will probably take safe foreign exile...
...program tonight of international folksongs and dances will open a series of events ending next Sunday with an Art Forum. There will be a series of art and craft demonstrations such as glass blowing, caligraphy, and Japanese flower arrangement, tomorrow afternoon followed by a carnival featuring Haitian and Flamenco music...
...technical mission. A forgotten village in Mexico tripled its population, opened a cinema and sent seven times as many children to school within three years after the World Bank financed a small diesel power plant. U.N. experts are ubiquitous in the underdeveloped free lands-a Haitian coffee expert and an Australian lumberjack teaching their trades in Addis Ababa, a Rhodesian statistician in Libya, an Icelandic engineer in Ceylon, a Danish fishing expert multiplying the catch of Chile's fisherfolk by replacing their oars with outboard engines...
...Dominican Republic's merengue closely resembles neighboring Haiti's meringue (pronounced like the topping on a lemon pie). In Dominican eyes, the livelier Haitian meringue seems oversexed, while to Haitian ears the Dominicans' merengue seems oversaxed. Both nations claim to have invented the ancestral meringue-merengue, but the true origins are obscure. One oft-told Dominican tale is that the merengue got started when a party of Dominican villagers welcoming home a war hero with a maimed leg sympathetically copied his gimpy style of dancing. The story is supposed to account for the merengue...
Nixon himself will be remembered in Haiti for another' talent. Sugar-rich Haiti has long smarted because President Paul Magloire prefers whisky to rum. During a formal reception last week, Dick Nixon waved photographers away, took President Magloire aside and showed him how a jigger of Haitian rum, a half teaspoon of sugar, soda water and plenty of squeezed lime juice make a wonderful rum collins...