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...practitioners of voodoo, Haiti's folk religion. Baby Doc cruised through the streets in a BMW, surrounded by a bevy of armed outriders. In a radio broadcast to the country, he used an old Creole saying to brag, "I am here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti Bad Times for Baby Doc | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

Thirty seconds later, Fusco tipped the puck past Gordon and over the goal line at the tail end of a goal-mouth scramble...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: The Nightmare: Never Going to Score Again | 2/4/1986 | See Source »

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti--Mobs rioted, buildings were burned and Jean-Claude Duvalier, president-for-life, imposed a state of siege yesterday and told the people of his impoverished land that he was in control, "firm as a monkey's tail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haiti Declares Seige Over Violence | 2/1/1986 | See Source »

Duvalier said in a radio broadcast after the Speakes statement: "The president is here, strong, firm as a monkey's tail. My dear friends, because of wild rumors and nonsense circulated by good-for-nothings for some times [sic] now, I'm obliged to take to the streets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haiti Declares Seige Over Violence | 2/1/1986 | See Source »

Elsewhere along the flight line the curious pressed the flesh of pilots, peered in bomb bays, pretended to be tail gunners. "How does she handle in a cross wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene | 1/17/1986 | See Source »

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