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Most of Haiti was asleep last week when Emile Jonassaint, the island's octogenarian puppet President, went on television at 2 a.m. to announce a national state of emergency. The country, Jonassaint declared, was "faced with extreme danger, denigrated, ridiculed, humiliated, strangled." Warning of "invasion and occupation," the President installed in office by his military handlers last month suggested that fellow Haitians might look for protection to the voodoo god of thunder...
...year-old took the reigns of the Mormon Church, succeeding the long-infirmed president who died last week. Howard Hunter was the obvious heir, despite his various illnesses; he has been the chief of the church's Council of the Twelve, the governing body of Mormonism. Despite being an octogenarian, Hunter will be the first president of the Mormon Church to have been born during the 20th century...
...political issues in all of Greece, Zhirinovsky could hardly have been surprised when he was detained by Greek border police on Monday while attempting to pay a cross-border visit without benefit of his passport. The ensuing delay cost him an appointment back in Bulgaria with "Baba Vanga," an octogenarian grandmother who is Bulgaria's most famous clairvoyant. She later assured him by phone that he would have "a very good January...
Across the English Channel, a play called The Visitor, by the young French dramatist Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, has opened in Paris, featuring the octogenarian Freud and his daughter Anna as principal characters. Meanwhile, the Grand Palais is staging an exhibition called "The Soul in the Body," with objects that manifest the interplay between art and science. One of the major displays is the couch on which Freud's patients in Vienna reclined. In his leather-upholstered office a few blocks away, Serge Leclaire, 69, an ex- president of the French Society for Psychoanalysis, notes all this cultural hubbub in France...
...without the rotund, irascible Kollek, who presided for nearly three decades over a transformation of the Holy City from a somnolent backwater bisected by barbed wire to a modern cosmopolis filled with parks, promenades and one of the biggest shopping malls in the Middle East. Recently, however, the indefatigable octogenarian, renowned for his ability to tiptoe through the city's political minefields, has been hampered by a threadbare temper and an embarrassing tendency to doze off, Reagan-style, at public events...