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Halti represents a similar case; Reagan last year increased the millions spent upholding the bloody reign of Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Davaller, Halti's so-called President-for-life. "Baby doc" rules the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere by military force, torture, and illegal improvement. Thousands of refugees fled to America to escape the crushing poverty and government terror, the President ordered them jailed, and instructed the Coast Guard to turn back boatloads of freedom-seekers...
...well island off the coast of Huntington Beach. The heavy seas bit off a 400-ft. section of the historic Santa Monica pier. Along the ravaged coast, more than 1,600 homes were damaged, including dozens in expensive enclaves of Santa Barbara and Stinson Beach. Tennis Star Billie Jean King's exclusive Malibu home, the subject of a celebrated "palimony" suit by her former lover Marilyn Barnett, was pounded off its foundation and had to be destroyed by officials for safety reasons. A tornado, rare for California, ripped through a section of Los Angeles...
...American Bishops Conference. John Paul will not have to look far to see examples of the poverty and tyranny that he wants the church to oppose with all its moral might. Long fearful of government repression, the church hierarchy in Haiti issued a bold challenge to President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier's dictatorship in a pastoral letter read from pulpits last January. Among other things, it called on all believers to "pray to the Lord so he can free our country from torture...
DIED. Florence Gould, 87, longtime patron of the arts who gave moral support and millions to leading French literary figures, and in the post-World War II years surrounded herself with something of a Parisian Bloomsbury group that included André Gide, Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dali; in Cannes. Born in San Francisco of French parents, she married Frank Jay Gould, son of the railroad robber baron, in 1923; together they invested shrewdly in Riviera real estate and built the casino, and the cachet, that made their Juan-les-Pins resort famous...
...behind them, humanity rides (or anyway a curious cross section of it). The passengers include weary, white-clad Casanova (Marcello Mastroianni), who now spends his time fending off women rather than seducing them; Tom Paine (Harvey Keitel), pamphleteer of the American rebellion; and the journalist Restif de la Bretonne (Jean-Louis Barrault), to name just the historical personages aboard. Among the fictional creations are a lady-in-waiting to the Queen (Hanna Schygulla), Her Majesty's snippy homosexual hairdresser, a widow in need of consolation, a judge, an arms manufacturer and an aging opera singer heading for a small...