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...public life," she boasts, "began at three." At twelve, she banded other children together in the illegal "monkey brigade," whose task was to sneak political messages past British soldiers. One visitor to Nehru's Allahabad home was gravely informed by his daughter: "I'm sorry, but Papa and Mama and Grandpapa are all in prison...
Divorced. Sammy Cahn, 50, kingpin Hollywood lyricist, author of more than a thousand songs (Three Coins in the Fountain, Love and Marriage), who last week picked up his fourth Academy Award for Call Me Irresponsible, sung by Jackie Gleason in Papa's Delicate Condition; by Gloria Delson Cahn, 37, onetime Goldwyn girl; on grounds of mental cruelty (she said he left her alone at parties); after 18 years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...
Outside the National Palace in Port-au-Prince last week, bands beat out the latest popular rhythm: Papa Doc Forever. Crowds of peasants and workers stood dutifully in the blazing sun as little Haiti's Dictator Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, 54, smiled benignly, then allowed that "forever" was just about what he had in mind. Bowing to overwhelming popular demand, he said, he had consented to rule tiny Haiti as President for life...
...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. At the end of Duvalier's constitutional term last year, when he skipped elections and simply...
Duvalier last week also assured the 4,000,000 Haitians that they could not have chosen a better man for lifetime President if they had voted on it. "I am an exceptional man," declared Papa Doc, "the kind the country could produce only once every 50 or 75 years...