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Revelers vowed "never, never again" to fall victim to tyranny. Some voiced concern about the course being set by the interim government, which is dominated by longtime Duvalier loyalists. Lieut. General Henry Namphy, the presiding member of the National Council of Government, moved swiftly to defuse the tide of criticism. He summarily abolished the National Assembly, a body that had served largely to rubber-stamp Duvalier policies. Namphy also disbanded the uniformed branch of the despised Duvalier secret police corps, the Tonton Macoutes...
...head of the newly appointed National Council of Government was Lieut. General Henri Namphy, 53, the commander of Duvalier's armed forces. In a five- minute television appearance, Namphy affirmed that the council would make "a commitment to human rights" but set no timetable for new elections. The other military members of the junta: Colonels Max Valles and William Regala, who held key positions in the Duvalier regime. The civilians: Minister of Public Works Alix Cineas and Gerard Gourgue, a founding member of the anti- Duvalier Haitian Human Rights League. The council named Colonel Prosper Avril, a former presidential aide...
...surface, and deep-diving submersibles went down to inspect it. There was speculation that the object might be Challenger's main cabin, although a more likely possibility was that it was one of Challenger's three main engines, which could have fallen in a cluster. But Coast Guard Spokesman Lieut. Commander James Simpson warned that "it could be a shrimp boat from 20 years ago or a Spanish galleon from 300 years ago." By week's end the mystery had not been solved. Recovery workers also turned their attention to a 13-ft.-diameter orange object sighted some 100 miles...
...They say every dog has his day," said retired Lieut. Colonel Richard E. Cole of San Antonio. "Well, we had ours." Cole was one of the Army airmen who flew with James H. Doolittle on April 18, 1942. That was the day the U.S. put 16 B-25s over Tokyo and four other Japanese cities in a raid that did little damage but -- pardon the French -- boosted the hell out of post- Pearl Harbor morale. "My wife is always saying 'What's wrong with you?' " Cole went on. "You see, every time I hear...
...Ethiopian government, which is bent on subduing what it calls the "Eritrean bandits." The U.S. backed the Ethiopian regime of the late Emperor Haile Selassie during the early years of the civil war. But U.S. ties with the country all but dissolved after 1977, when Ethiopia's leader, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, allied his country with the Soviet Union...