Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tonton Macoute, estimated to number 5,000, take care of individual oppositionists. Uncounted hundreds have been hauled off to Fort Dimanche, outside Port-au-Prince; some have been blinded by the beatings, some deafened, some killed. Newspaper Editor Madame Yvonne Hakim-Rimpel was kidnaped from her home by Tonton Macoutes. She was taken to a local lovers' lane in St. Martin woods, beaten, raped, and mutilated. Says a foreign diplomat: "Duvalier's real contribution to Haitian history is government by gang. He is the king of the bogeymen...
...JAMES M. DECKER The Reformed Church of Deerpark Port Jervis...
...flight in Texas, the system worked perfectly; its calm voice gave prompt warning of many simulated hazards. Then the pilot, Major H. T. Deutschendorf, started his landing approach. Gina spoke once more, warning that his airplane's alternator was out and that fuel pressure was low on the port side. The major had had enough tests for the day. "Shut the damned thing off," he shouted to his crew. A crew member replied that no more hazards had been simulated. Suddenly the major realized that this time the warnings were real. He followed VIPS's instructions, and made...
Cameraman Eugen Shuftan, a cunning old (65) craftsman well-known (Port of Shadows, Metropolis) in Europe, sometimes shows a young man's infatuation with technique. Pigeons, for instance, have no importance in this picture, so why in Hell's Kitchen have they been blown up till they look like taxicabs with wings? But in general he contrives with careful empathy to see the city as the heroine sees it, to suggest the horror in the eye of the beholder. What's more, Composer Aaron Copland has written some graceful background music, and the three principals...
...left only one-third of the country cultivable, but the Point Four program has failed here because it has substituted symbolic gestures for real aid. Unfortunately, a birth control program, although one of the most effective kinds of aid must, temporarily, be left to the Roman Catholic Church in Port-au-Prince, and the Voodoo leaders of the interior...