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After rampaging Haitian soldiers opened fire on street crowds and threatened to kill Aristide, a 38-year-old priest, Venezuela's President Carlos Andres Perez sent a plane to fly him to safety. Perez offered Aristide refuge in Caracas and said his country would be ready to take part in "the severest of actions" to re-establish a legitimate government in Haiti...
Back in Haiti, Mr. Miracle had been an embattled figure, the tumultuous center of a brewing storm. After the Duvalier dynasty was overthrown in 1986, the slender but resilient priest slowly emerged as the embodiment of hope. Aristide's church was filled with the excitement that lit up Haiti's poor, its unemployed, its peasantry and most of all its youth, when he and other liberationists taught that there was a slim possibility for democratic change...
...Priest--is the portrait of a village choked to death by ideology. At the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at 24 Quincy St. Call...
...expect dramatic discoveries to appear on cue for 1992 is unrealistic. The Holy Grail of Columbus studies would be the long-lost original log of his first voyage to what he called "the Indies," which exists only in a badly garbled abridgment made after his death by the Spanish priest Bartolome de las Casas. Las Casas, who wrote voluminously on the Spanish colonization of the New World, was not a mariner, and his version is filled with errors that have caused endless dispute over such basic matters as Columbus' course on his historic sail and where his little fleet made...
...chains of unarmed protesters. At the foot of the main staircase, an organizer with a megaphone called, "All courageous men who are willing to defend the building, please come forward!" About 90 men -- the forerunners of many, many more -- formed up in three rows on the stairs. An Orthodox priest in full regalia read the Lord's Prayer to them...