Word: haitians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mountains of very great size and beauty, vast plains, groves and very fruitful fields" that enchanted Columbus in 1492, when he landed on the island he called Espanola. In Haiti's unpolluted air, sunsets are breathtaking, night skies are spectacular, and colors so vivid that they have inspired Haitians to become a nation of artists. There are more mundane attractions. Five days in a comfortable Port-au-Prince hotel can cost as little as $125, including breakfasts and dinners-far less than in the more familiar Caribbean isles. Another lure is the quick divorce; Haitian courts issue divorce decrees...
...enough room behind the throne for both Cambronne and Marie-Denise. Cambronne first managed to get Marie-Denise and her husband Max Dominique ordered out of the country. A few months later, while the Dominiques were vacationing in Acapulco, he had Max fired from his post as Haitian ambassador to Paris. After living in exile in Paris and Washington, D.C., for several months, the persistent Marie-Denise turned up in Haiti again last September. Haitian exiles in the U.S. soon speculated that there would be another showdown and this time Marie-Denise would win. It was not long after...
...fall of the shark in the sharkskin suits will not automatically turn Haiti into a model democracy. But it may serve as a warning to other rapacious Duvalierists to curb their excesses; it may also encourage more foreign investment and loans for the long-undernourished Haitian economy. Now that Baby Doc seems to be firmly in power and amenable to reform, he may even release the unknown number of political prisoners ruthlessly rounded up by his father and still rotting in notorious Fort Dimanche prison...
...blood component used in emergency treatment, research and vaccine production, some companies have even gone abroad. Several American firms are buying plasma in Puerto Rico and South America and, according to unconfirmed reports, underdeveloped West African nations. One American-owned firm, Hemo Caribbean, buys blood for plasma from Haitian peasants who are so poor that they must sell the stuff of life in order to survive...
...Haitian bogeyman was called "Tonton Macoute" because he carried a large bag into which he popped naughty children and carried them away. He was represented in earlier and more authentic sculpture and pictures as a huge burly man with an oversized "macoute...