Word: henrys
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When Leslie Manigat emerged as the victor in Haiti's presidential elections last January, it was assumed that the former political exile would act as a puppet for the outgoing military junta led by Lieut. General Henri Namphy. But last week it was the puppet who pulled the strings. In a communique read over Haitian television and radio, Manigat dismissed Namphy as Commander in Chief of the army for "insubordination" and fired two other generals on Namphy's staff...
...Gauguin's Tahitians? Most of early Matisse seems present in the twining lines and harsh dissonances of red, yellow and green with which Gauguin pictured himself 15 years before in the sardonic Self-Portrait with Halo, 1889. Gauguin's sculpture and painting were basic to German expressionism, and even Henri Rousseau seems to have based his Sleeping Gypsy on Gauguin's goose-pimply image of erotic shame, The Loss of Virginity...
...winner seemed to be Leslie Manigat, 57, a former political science professor who fled Haiti during the Duvalier dictatorship and spent 23 years in exile in France and Venezuela. A preliminary tally indicated that Manigat won slightly more than 50% of the vote. Brigadier General Henri Namphy, head of the country's three-man military junta, initially favored another candidate, but Manigat apparently won the last-minute support of the junta's Brigadier General Williams Regala and another top military leader. "Manigat could only get to where he has got through an obscure, rigged situation," says a Haitian social scientist...
...election vary, but none are promising. At best, the election will simply be called off. At worst, Haitians predict a bloodbath of the sort that brought last November's presidential contest to a halt just three hours into the balloting. Many Haitians are now forecasting that if Brigadier General Henri Namphy, head of the ruling junta, feels he cannot impose his choice of a President on the rest of the army, he will postpone or cancel the voting. From Port-au-Prince to Washington, virtually everybody seems to discount the possibility of a fair contest. Says a politician...
There has always been something of the self-delighted mischiefmaker about William F. Buckley Jr., America's Tory toreador. In his summer-weight spy thrillers about the Ivy League CIA agent Blackford Oakes (The Story of Henri Tod, Saving the Queen), the payoff lies partly in the impudence with which Buckley rewrites cold war incidents to include his hero's exploits. This new pastiche begins in early 1963 with failed and sometimes bizarre CIA efforts to assassinate Fidel Castro. U.S. readers are sufficiently detached from the Cuban strongman to see this as comedy, perhaps. But the plot winds...