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...decades, the mostly poor and illiterate people of Haiti (pop. 6 million) have accepted their fate at the hands of corrupt dictators. But in recent months a combination of blatant economic mismanagement, lavish corruption surrounding President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier and brutal repression of those who protest his regime has brought increasing numbers of Haitians to a stark conclusion: enough is enough...
...examining Haiti's human rights record as a precondition to releasing $56 million in aid earmarked for the country. Duvalier's harsh response to the recent protests was a "giant step backward," says a U.S. diplomat in Port-au-Prince. In an effort to make amends, former Foreign Minister Jean-Robert Estimé traveled to Washington last month to meet with State Department officials. The Duvalier government promptly announced that it was undertaking an investigation of the Gonaïves school principal's death and gave Radio Soleil permission to begin broadcasting again. The station is expected to be back...
Between your farewells to Konstantin Chernenko and Jean Dubuffet, both of whom died in 1985, you should have placed Philippine democracy. I have been waiting to read of its demise in TIME's Images since 1972, when President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in that "bastion of democracy in the Pacific." Gus Fernando Richmond Hill...
...manuscript is marred by fragmented sentences and unanswered questions. It ends nearly two decades before Schneider's career did; his widow Jean writes that he left the makings of another volume, but does not explain how anyone could authentically complete it. Still, Entrances has so much to say that it underlines the loss caused by Schneider's brutal exit. It also provides what the ephemeral work of stagecraft cannot: a director's lasting legacy. --By William A. Henry...
...wage increases are modest, and governments are reducing budget deficits. At the same time, Lundgren found that Europeans, on the political left as well as the right, have learned to accept the need for free-market solutions, even if it means shutting down loss-making steel mills and shipyards. Jean-Marie Chevalier, professor-of economics at the University of Paris Nord, also noted the growth of a new entrepreneurial spirit that helps growth...