Word: seraphin
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While we are exploring, Seraphin goes off with two Pygmies and discovers the remains of an elephant. Fay worries that this may be the work of poachers, but Seraphin points out that the elephant has its tusks. The Pygmies can find no sign that any humans have been in the area. The elephant could have died of natural causes, or it could have been wounded outside the Ndoki and then run inside for refuge...
...Explains an exiled opposition leader: "Who would want to inherit Haiti's problems?" Castro's ambitions have also been frustrated on Dominica, where Hurricane David blew away not only thousands of homes, but the odds-on chance that Leftist David Rosie Douglas would unseat Prime Minister Oliver Seraphin in the December elections. When Grenada's Prime Minister Bishop and a team of Cubans arrived on the little island (750 sq. mi.) with a promise of $5 million in relief assistance from Havana, they were greeted by scores of U.S. flags fluttering from surviving buildings. The spontaneous display...
...cubic feet of rock that had loomed over the region as the Devil's Tower. In Aire nearly every house had lost a husband, son or brother. Thérèse, who was pregnant, had lost her young husband Antoine, and her uncle Seraphin, with whom he shared...
...weeks later a wasted, ghostly figure crept down the mountainside to Aire. It was Antoine, who had incredibly survived because the rear wall of his cabin had been the cliff itself. Dazed and half-starved, he spends only one night at home, returns the next morning determined to find Seraphin, whose voice he had heard after the landslide. When the superstitious mountain men refuse to go with him, he crazily attacks the boulder-strewn waste with pick and shovel, is brought back to sanity only by the courage and understanding of his wife who has followed him up the mountainside...
...champion, has an ideal stride for indoor track but he has only recently recovered from an attack of bronchitis. He withdrew from the 1,000-yd. race and placed only third in the two-mi, steeplechase. To some of the foreign athletes, however, boards were new. Seraphin Martin of France was second in the 600-yd., which Phil Edwards, late of New York University, won for the fourth year in succession. Paul Keller of France did not even place in the 1,000-yd. From this point of view it was a fine evening for U. S. athletes...