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...promised that he would do something for the country's poor black majority, who for years have been exploited by a small clique of mulattoes. Instead, Duvalier, who was very dark, immediately imposed a reign of terror on a nation whose slave origins made it no stranger to brutality. His secret policemen, the Tontons Macoutes (Creole for "bogeymen"), murdered and tortured his opponents, sometimes leaving a victim's severed head on display in a marketplace as a warning to others. They also collected unofficial taxes and tribute from cowed Haitian businessmen and peasants...
Like her heroine, Author Gallie is Welsh-born. But she has got the Gaelic in her, and in the country of the word she is no stranger...
...larger dividends in the second.) There is also Ethel Woodruff in the potentially unrewarding part of the decrepit boarder. Miss Woodruff looks not unlike a pet rabbit who is murdered during the course of the drama; her pink eyes stare painfully ahead as if death were some shabby stranger waving in the faint distance, and I found her portrayal so credible that I often found it necessary to avert my eyes from the spectacle...
Harvard's lineup will be substantially the same as the one that saw the bulk of the action in Scotland and England. Forwards will be hooker Lynn Coe, props Lee Sheehy and Spencer Dreischarf, second row Eric Henrikson and Bill Framen, lock Alec Wiggin and wing forwards John Stranger and Paul Reppun...
Against Hariot-Watt University. Harvard fell 16-8 and dropped two other matches to Edinburgh fifteens. In the final game, against Edinburgh Wednesday Club, the underdogs tallied six tries, eventually falling 37-27, after leading 19-18 at halftime. Clark and O'Grady scored twice each, with Reppun and Stranger adding one apiece. Finn converted three times and added a penalty kick...