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...Haiti's cruelest slums, scores of quasi-government thugs known as Tonton Macoutes, wearing telltale red armbands, stormed into a crowded Sunday Mass, attacking indiscriminately with knives, shooting wildly and torching the church. The toll of the rampage: 13 worshipers slain, more than 70 wounded and a gutted church building. But the apparent object of the attack, Father Jean- Bertrand Aristide, somehow managed to escape, as he had in five previous attempts on his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Little Prophet of Haiti | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...Hall Bells to Toll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 10/22/1988 | See Source »

...curfew and called in the army to restore law-and-order. Total property damage was estimated at more than $100 million. The government said 900 people were ! arrested, and without disclosing figures admitted that people on both sides were killed during battles between protesters and security forces. Whatever the toll, the outburst jolted Bendjedid's ten-year-old regime, which has sought to revive the country's petroleum-depressed economy with an austerity program that included cuts in subsidies for food and other commodities. The result has been sharply rising prices: a pound of beef now costs about $12. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Of Algiers | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

Billy died of pancreatic cancer, the same disease that claimed his father in 1953 and his sister Ruth in 1983. He was 51. The cancer and a year of experimental treatments had taken a fearful physical toll. But, having already overcome so much in his life, he retained his humor and irony almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wry Clown Billy Carter, 1937-1988 | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...first launch since the Challenger explosion with its toll of seven lives on a cold winter day shocked the nation and stopped the manned space program in its tracks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discovery Lifts Off In Flawless Launch | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

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