Word: haitians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gabber on the no. 1 talk-radio station in the No. 1 market called blacks "savages" and Haitian refugees "subhuman scum." Gays were "perverted misfits." Anyone who argued or spoke with an accent earned a raging "Get off my phone, you creep...
...unsuccessful run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1980. That led to several jobs with Kennedy, but Brown eventually left public service to join Patton, Boggs, one of the capital's pre-eminent lobbying firms. There he earned a six-figure income representing a client list that included a Haitian dictator and several Japanese megacorporations. In 1988 he dipped back into politics as a strategist for Jesse Jackson's campaign. Brown's skills as go-between kept the insurgent Jackson from tearing apart the Democratic Convention--an experience that left Brown with a keen sense of how divided the Democrats...
...think it was particularly helpful," said Alex-Handrah Aime '98, chair of the Haitian Alliance...
...Haitian dictator Raoul Cedras came far short of killing one, much less four, unarmed U.S. citizens, but the Clinton administration nonetheless saw fit to replace his regime by an American-backed government. The dictatorship of Fidel Castro has lasted more than 37 years and has repeatedly resorted to violence and oppression in terms similar to, and even harsher than, the deposed Haitian dictator's. Last week's actions are only Castro's most recent transgressions in a long line of human rights abuses that have resulted in over 300,000 deaths...
Smith says he traveled to Haiti and presented to the U.S. Deputy Ambassador and the Haitian Truth Commission several petitions which Dorsainvil had collected from fellow students in Adams House...