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...Most of us would like to know when it will take effect," said payroll office worker Elizabeth Samedi...
...from the government's revenues-about one-fifth of the country's entire budget-while Jean-Claude recently inaugurated a huge $3 million mausoleum honoring Papa Doc. "We live only in fantasies; reality eludes us," Publisher Dieudonne Fardin recently complained in Haiti's bimonthly Le Petit Samedi Soir. "One comes to the realization that there is an absence of national will to search for solutions to the problems which affect the future of the country." Fardin is probably right, but the government's response to his forthright criticism, typically, was to have him thrown in jail...
Their loyalty, of course, has a basis in fear, the political fear of the vicious Tonton Macoute and the mystic fear that Duvalier's own voodoo practice has generated. He takes the name "Baron Samedi"--one of the manifestations of the voodoo deity--and in 1963, when he popularized the story that he had engineered Kennedy's assassination through voodoo, many Haitians believed...
...CROSS OF BARON SAMEDI (502 pp.)-Richard Dohrman-Houghton Miff...
...Artist as Undertaker. Novelist Dohrman follows his ostensible theme-that Nature makes men weak-at the expense of his real one, learned too late by Owen: "If we are weak, we are not strong, and what we are, you see, ruins everything." In voodoo lore, Baron Samedi is the chief of the legion of the dead; he is represented by a wooden cross decked out, scarecrow fashion, in a black bowler hat, morning coat and goggles. In an ironic way, the baron is Author Dohrman's severest critic. How much closer can a writer get to the portrait...