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President Ertha Pascal-Trouillot was at home with her family when an army tank driver knocked on her door at 10 p.m. As gunfire echoed in the distance, he told her there was trouble and that she would be safer at the presidential palace, three miles away in Port-au-Prince, the capital. On the way, the driver stopped to pick up a second passenger, a heavyset, balding man whom Pascal-Trouillot could not identify in the dark. Only after arriving at the palace did the President learn that her companion was Dr. Roger Lafontant, former head of the Tontons...
...coup was quashed too late, however, to prevent a bloody and destructive outburst of public anger. A mob scaled the 10-ft.-high walls of Lafontant's Port-au-Prince compound, killing a dozen suspected Tontons Macoutes holed up inside. Infuriated at what was seen as support for the coup makers by the conservative Roman Catholic hierarchy, crowds torched Haiti's 220-year-old cathedral and destroyed the Vatican embassy, stripping the papal nuncio down to his shorts before he was rescued and assaulting his chief aide with a machete...
...enigmatic, nondescript power. At the after-dinner session, introduced by Ned as a "legend of the Service," Smiley tells the expectant students, "Oh, I don't think I'm a legend at all. I think I'm just a rather fat old man wedged between the pudding and the port." Not true. Ned paraphrases the remarks of an extremely clever and thoughtful man: "He scoffed at the idea that spying was a dying profession now that the cold war had ended: with each new nation that came out of the ice, he said, with each new alignment, each rediscovery...
Aristide's activism has also put him in mortal danger. Since 1986, there have been numerous attempts on his life. The danger was evident three weeks ago, when a grenade killed eight people at a rally outside Port-au-Prince. Aristide's uncanny ability to survive such attacks has led some Haitians to believe he is protected by magical and religious powers...
...small but ominous indication: Colonel Ivan Chernykh, commander of the Soviet army garrison in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda, a hotbed of tension between ethnic Russians and Lithuanians, sent soldiers toting submachine guns to patrol city streets and gave them authority to check documents and arrest civilians. This escalation gave weight to rumors that Moscow planned a military crackdown on the rebellious Baltic republics and prompted a protest from the Lithuanian government to Gorbachev that the actions of the Soviet army brutally violate the human rights of ((Lithuanian)) citizens...