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Hopkins can be so engagingly heedless about stardom because, he says, "I've never really planned out a career. I've gone along with -- call it destiny, luck, whatever. I've very much been that sort of person my entire life." Born New Year's Eve 1937 in Port Talbot, Wales, the son of a master confectioner and baker, Hopkins entered the Cardiff School of Music and Drama to study piano. "I was a poor student," he says, "very slow, very backward. I drifted into acting because, literally, I had nothing better...
Worst of all is the fear. Barnes makes frequent visits to a poor neighborhood just outside Port-au-Prince to gauge the mood of the country. He has his interpreter drive in front of one source's home and slow down, so he can jump out quickly to attract as little attention as possible. Last week Barnes arranged a meeting with a group of attaches, the gun-toting police auxiliaries, but his interpreter was so scared that he purposely drove to the wrong spot, knowing that nobody would show up. "There is no one on either side," says Barnes...
American exporters, for instance, have long been aware that they can get their products to market quicker and secure the all-important initital market share by engaging in naemul with dock or port workers. These workers then repeat the process with truckers, who pay "fees" to wholesalers, who would pay retailers, and so on. Only in this way could each participant in the chain hope to compete effectively...
...case Aristide did come back into power and try to put some curbs on this," says one customs agent. While a handful of Colombians in Haiti control the drugs, the U.S. is more interested in the role of Michel Francois, the self-anointed police chief of Port-au-Prince. "Sweet Mickey" controls the local docks...
...night and a frightened silence fall over most of Port-au-Prince, the Champs de Mars, a grimy street a hundred yards from the National Palace, fills with drunken gunmen and pulsating music with a voodoo beat. Through the hours of darkness cars rumble up to the Normandie Restaurant and the political offices next door. Scores of "attaches," the heavily armed civilian auxiliaries to the police, receive their orders and roar away on the violent and bloody missions that keep the Haitian military regime in power...