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...invaders, possibly fewer than 50 men, landed by boat late last month on Haiti's southern coast, linked up with some two dozen sympathizers and disappeared into a rugged spine of mountains ten miles inland. When news of the landing reached Port-au-Prince, Duvalier rushed his militiamen to the area. Throughout Haiti the terror was on. Scores of suspected rebel sympathizers were rounded up and tortured; many were beaten to death. In Port-au-Prince, more than ten members of a single family-including an 18-month-old child-disappeared into Duvalier's notorious Fort Dimanche prison...
...capita income, 90% illiteracy), it was a life sentence. Since he took office in 1957, Duvalier has ruthlessly liquidated every real or suspected foe of his regime. The 5,000-man Tonton Macoute, Duvalier's plain-clothes bully boys, shake down merchants and terrorize peasants, while his militiamen engage in macabre voodoo orgies, playing on the belief of the superstitious population that Papa Doc has occult powers. Haitian exiles, arriving in the Dominican Republic at the other end of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, say that the rites have included sewing up newborn babies inside sacrificial bulls...
...over Guantanamo. Immediately after the Jan. 9 Canal Zone riots, Castro's radio started appealing to Cuban workers on the base to return to the "motherland." A few weeks ago, Havana's propagandists railed that "drunken U.S. Marines indiscriminately fired their machine guns at Cuban workers." Castro militiamen have resumed their rock-throwing at U.S. sentries, recently fired a burst of machine-gun fire over the heads of a Marine squad inside the fence...
Prague has erupted in two race riots within two years. Last February in Sofia, Bulgarian militiamen wielded clubs against 200 Ghanaians who were marching down the main street demanding nothing more than their own campus organization. In Moscow, Africans have been smoldering for years over thinly disguised racial discrimination. Except for a token number of Russian students, the dining rooms and dormitories of Lumumba U. (which Africans sardonically call "Apartheid U.") are segregated. Africans find it difficult to date a Russian girl. Students squirm at the stares they get in public and object to poor service they often receive...
With some 10,000 state fire fighters, militiamen, federal troops and volunteers, Paraná officials are concentrating more on saving populated areas than fighting the flames themselves. No town has been totally burned. The biggest victory was saving Cidade Nova, site of Brazil's largest paper mill. It took 17 bulldozers and hundreds of fire fighters clearing a two-mile-wide fire lane around the town to check the flames. Though 70% of the mill's forest reserves were wiped out, the mill and town were saved...