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...reported last week that its November receipts rose only .7% over the same month in 1986, while J.C. Penney showed 4.3% growth. "People are looking more than they are buying. There is a level of concern and nervousness that wasn't there last year," said Mark Shulman, president of Henri Bendel, a tony New York City department store...
...just the election bloodbath that outraged Haitians and international observers. Hours after civilian election officials halted the polling in hopes of curbing the violence, Lieut. General Henri Namphy, head of the military-dominated junta, dissolved the independent nine-member electoral council. Haitians and diplomats alike denounced the move as a "coup d'etat against the constitution."Council members refused to step down, labeling Namphy's move an "act of high treason" and declaring void any elections that the government organizes in the future. At least one presidential candidate demanded that the junta step down...
After the guns and the machetes had finished their gruesome work last week, Haiti's election-day bloodbath claimed another victim: U.S. support for the provisional government of Lieut. General Henri Namphy. Having insisted for months that Namphy was a staunch friend of democracy, despite mounting evidence to the contrary, White House officials were suddenly scrambling for a new policy to help restore order and ensure free elections. The search quickly swelled into an international debate over how far the U.S. and other countries should go to intervene in the affairs of Haiti. At the center of the dispute...
That stark announcement crushed the last hope that Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, could move easily toward democracy. Since the overthrow of Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier in February 1986, the nation has been ruled by an army-dominated provisional government headed by Lieut. General Henri Namphy. The 22 months of military rule, though, have been a period of unrest, as the country stood on the brink of anarchy. In some areas law and order have virtually broken down, and an estimated 500 people have been killed in random and often gruesome violence. At the same time...
...through human DNA for the genes that may underlie alcoholism. If they are successful, doctors may one day be able to test young people for certain genetic markers, the chromosomal quirks that predispose some individuals to alcoholism, and warn those who are at risk of developing the disease. Says Henri Begleiter, professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center and president of the Research Society on Alcoholism: "Never in the history of alcoholism have we made as much progress as we have in recent years...