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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Haiti no one was either making promises or asking for any from the new regime. At first, the coup caught many Haitians, including the main opposition groups, by surprise. But as mutinous troops arrested commander after commander, a strange civilian counterpart to the revolt began to take place in key state corporations. Top officials of the water, electricity and phone companies were told by their staffs that they were no longer in charge. The governor of the Central Bank, Onill Millet, was "fired" by his employees and thrown out of the building...
...Haiti's history offers little encouragement, Burma's experience offers at least a glimmer of hope. Rangoon enjoyed 14 years of democracy between the end of British colonial rule in 1948 and Ne Win's seizure of power in 1962. The key to the metamorphosis from angry revolt to ordered self-rule, explains Michael Novak of the American Enterprise Institute, is the acceptance of restraint. "It's not just a matter of going to the barricades," he says. "You must go from being a mob to being a people. From there, you must develop habits of self-organization." In both...
...driving to work when Dame Nature begins to shuffle across your innards in her steel-toed brogans. You stop at the nearest full- service gas station, ten miles down the road, grab the key, open the door and . . . Ay-yi, maybe you can wait after...
...Dukakis headquarters the major political decisions used to be made at the 9 a.m. departmental meeting that Estrich still chairs. Sasso has pre-empted some of the decision making by creating a loose, informal 8 o'clock gathering with a few key advisers, such as Kirk O'Donnell, Jack Corrigan and Peter Jacobs...
...structure is more formal at Bush headquarters, where Baker's authority $ is explicit as well as implicit. At 7:30 each morning, seated around the conference table in Baker's office are roughly the same seven or eight key people, including Atwater, TV guru Roger Ailes, pollster Robert Teeter and chief of staff Craig Fuller. "What's the line of the day?" is Baker's invariable call to order -- and that question perfectly encapsulates the bumper-sticker mind-set that dominates both campaigns. Teeter provides the initial answer, usually based on his latest polling. The mood is virtually always...