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...been provoked by the barbarism of an attack on worshipers at a Port- au-Prince church, St. Jean Bosco, three Sundays ago. The attack, which left 13 dead and 77 injured, was staged by the Tonton Macoutes, the vicious thugs who terrorized Haiti under the Duvaliers. Under Lieut. General Henri Namphy, leader of the just ousted regime, and particularly Port-au-Prince mayor Franck Romain, the Macoutes have enjoyed a comeback...
...political turmoil that has gripped Haiti ever since the overthrow of Dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1986 has taken another dramatic turn. A military coup last Saturday night ousted Lieut. General Henri Namphy as the country's leader. He and Franck Romain, mayor of the capital city of Port-au- Prince, were taken to Haiti's international airport to be put on a Sunday flight to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, where they have been granted political asylum. Brigadier General Prosper Avril, a Haitian power broker who had close ties to Duvalier, declared himself the new President of Haiti...
This is as it should be. Movies, even in a museum, want the proud hug of philistinism. The film archivist Henri Langlois knew this when he opened a Paris movie museum 16 years ago in his Cinematheque Francaise. Inside the front door, Psycho's mummified Mother Bates lurked behind a window. Against the back wall, German expressionism ran riot in a full-scale set from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The museum was like an EKG of a national intelligence that can find value in both Jean-Luc Godard and Jerry Lewis...
...Partridge Family lunch box, a Donald Duck board game, the Welcome Back, Kotter paper-doll set. And when you need a rest, stop by AMMI's two state-of-the-art theaters and catch a full-length movie. Later this fall, AMMI will mount a Jerry Lewis retrospective. Henri Langlois must be pleased...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti--Brig. Gen. Prosper Avril, a former military adviser for the Duvalier dictatorship, declared himself president yesterday after ousting Lt. Gen. Henri Namphy...