Word: haitians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...dictator proved a flop. He spent $25 million erecting a gigantic "International Fair for Peace and Progress," opened the doors for business only three months before the Galindez kidnaping. The strongman was splashed with a storm of bad notices unequaled since he ordered the massacre of 15,000 Haitian migrant farm workers in 1937. As he steadily blocked FBI investigation of the double crime, magazines, newspapers, radio networks and U.S. Congressmen denounced him. The tourist traffic jerked to a halt...