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...Haitians who endured the 28-year rule of the Duvalier dynasty, it was a vivid replay of an old nightmare. A sudden police fusillade two weeks ago outside Port-au-Prince's Fort Dimanche, once a prison and torture center of the feared Tonton Macoute, killed eight marchers protesting Duvalier-era atrocities and wounded 20. The violence sparked demands for the resignation of the National Council of Government that has ruled since President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier fled in February. Last week the military- backed junta, which has been criticized for its plodding efforts at reform, took...
...council is also acting to bring several Duvalier henchmen to justice. They include Suspected Murderer Frank Roumain, a former mayor of Port-au- Prince, and Luc Desyr, who served as chief of the Duvaliers' secret police. Desyr is believed to have tortured a former leader of the Haitian legislature...
...would rather walk around Athens airport waving an Israeli flag than walk around the Port Authority [bus station] in New York waving my wallet," William A. Davis, travel editor of The Boston Globe, told the audience of 37 at the K-School's IOP forum on "Terrorism and Tourism: Flying the Unfriendly Skies...
...military section of the Tripoli International Airport, base of Libya's fleet of nine Il-76s, which have been used in terrorist operations for supply and transport. A third target was the Benghazi army barracks, which Gaddafi uses as an alternative command post. Then came barracks at the naval port of Sidi Bilal, near Tripoli, a commando training facility. Finally, security officials recommended a strike at the Benina airfield, where Libya's MiG-23 interceptors are based, as a precaution against counterattack...
...lightweights, after last week's impressive win over Dartmouth and MIT, the boat remains essentially unchanged--but Coach Charles Butt has done some shuffling of his port side in a search for the fastest possible combination...