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...times over the subsequent two weeks. Better yet, convention spending is pure gravy for the host city. "Conventions don't pollute or put any burden on municipal services," says Frank Sain, president of the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau. Adds Hartford, Conn.'s Convention and Visitors Bureau Chairman David Heinl: "A convention is like a plane flying over and dropping money into a city for three or four days...
More recently, the embarrassment has been compounded by another revelation about the his-her theses-an account of the U.S. Marines' 1915-34 occupation of Haiti. The military-affairs writer for the Detroit News, Robert D. Heinl Jr., a retired Marine colonel, says that the theses also bear strange similarities to an official 1934 Marine Corps report and a 1939 Marine history of the American intervention. In 1955, when the Naval Institute published McCrocklin's dissertation as a book, it listed him as "compiler" rather than author. In Who's Who in America, however, McCrocklin credited himself...
...been suspended for three months. No more arms are being sent in, and the U.S. has demanded a weapon-by-weapon accounting for the $1,100,000 worth shipped in since 1960 to equip Haiti's regular army, air force and coast guard. Now, Colonel Robert Debs Heinl Jr., chief of the 50-man U.S. Marine mission sent down to train Haiti's soldiers, has indicated still more U.S. displeasure. In a note, approved by the highest levels of both the Pentagon and the State Department, he coldly suggested that Duvalier abolish the brutal 8,000-man militia...
Demoralized Army. In plain leatherneck language, Colonel Heinl said that the Milice Civile was becoming Haiti's primary armed force, while the constitutional army was being neglected. He noted that the national Academic Militaire had been closed for months, and that army barracks everywhere were falling into disrepair for lack of funds. "Haiti in its present circumstances cannot afford to maintain two separate armies," wrote Heinl. "The practice on the part of individual miliciens or their leaders of establishing themselves as vagrant law officers exercising police authority has had a degrading effect on the regular armed forces...
...coffin containing the body of the daughter of President Alexandre Petion (1808-18). But he also found old blue ceremonial uniforms in the army warehouses and soon fielded a band that gives rousing renditions of the Marines' Hymn, plus a passable version of the Haitian anthem. More important, Heinl's 40-man team taught the troops how to get from bunks to battle stations all over town in 30 minutes flat...