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...salute and the exploding of $100,000 worth of fireworks greeted Haiti's President for Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, 28, and his bride Michèle Bennett, 27. The couple emerged under crossed sabers from the freshly refurbished cathedral of Port-au-Prince after a $3 million wedding, the country's most lavish social event in two decades. Said the bride, with a smile: "We'll make lots of children and live happily ever after...
...Duvalier's marriage to Michèle-a divorcee whose former father-in-law once tried to overthrow Baby Doc's late father, "Papa Doc" Duvalier-signal a possible new moderation? Probably not. The real significance seemed to be the consolidation of Baby Doc's power within the family fiefdom, in which his mother, Simone, for instance, still holds the title of First Lady of the Republic. In this dynastic system, a princely heir will help ensure perpetual rule...
Jeanne Lisle Midland, Mich...
Ever since 1913, when Henry Ford fired up the world's first moving assembly line in Highland Park, Mich., to build Model Ts and began paying workers the then unthinkable salary of $5 a day, Detroit has been the center of the American automobile business. All five of the country's automakers (including Volkswagen of America) have their headquarters in Detroit or one of its suburbs...
...summer approaches, gas prices are changing vacation habits. The American Automobile Association says requests for travel planning are off 12.9% this year. "Gas prices make driving to Florida impossible," says Paul Polsky, a pharmacist in Troy, Mich. "We'll spend vacation in the state...