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...barracks in the center of Port-au-Prince. Afterward, President for Life Jean-Claude Duvalier happily shook hands all around and basked in the cheers of 15,000 spectators, who were clearly enjoying an event that would have been unimaginable in the days of his father, the late Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier...
...people believe Joe Bonanno was actually kidnaped and got his captors to release him by agreeing to give up his New York activities. He was then supposed to have reneged and fled to Haiti, where he had gambling interests under the protection of the late dictator, François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier. Whatever happened, the result was a New York Mafia power struggle known as the Banana War. It ended with at least seven dead. In 1966, Bill Bonanno was almost killed in a Brooklyn ambush. After Joe Bonanno reappeared, his house in Tucson, Ariz., was bombed. It turned...
...Dominican Republic and Haiti have Mexico to thank for their new source of income. Troubled by the tawdry image of the Ciudad Juárez divorce factory, Mexican federal authorities last year successfully pressed for an end to the practice. Haiti's late dictator, François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, promptly signed a quickie divorce law and the Dominican Republic soon followed suit...
Hemingway pointed the way: perfection of style was the writer's road to salvation-or at least to survival. If it did not overripen, as style tends to do, it might occasionally reveal what Papa called "the real thing." Mason Smith and Alvin Greenberg, two promising stylists and fledgling novelists, each offer one for the road. Both books have hitchhiking protagonists who abandon cloisters of respectability for the unexpected. But there the similarities...
Died. Dr. Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, 64, demagogic ruler of Haiti since 1957 (see THE WORLD...