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...enforce his rule, Duvalier created the thuggish Tonton Macoutes, Creole for bogeymen. Swaggering through the streets, they terrorized the population, extorted money and tortured and killed untold numbers. In January 1971, Papa Doc decreed that his tubby son Jean-Claude, 19, would succeed him in the presidency. Haitians were called to the polls to ratify the succession of the ) moon-faced playboy, whose interests seemed to revolve around women and fast cars. According to government figures, Baby Doc won the plebiscite handily...
Machines cannot perform all functions an astronaut can, shuttle proponents note. And the future space station program may yield untold benefits, they argue...
...Libya and its leader, Moammar Khadafy. By contrast, our European allies appear to have learned nothing from such terrible events as the holiday airport massacres in Rome and Vienna. By their continued refusal to join the United States in concerted sanctions, European governments have doomed their own citizens and untold others to an increase in terrorist violence and a possible upsetting of the balance of power in the Arab world...
...going to take his wife, his two daughters, his pile of clips about irrelevant developments in Boston politics, and a shitload of untold stories of Harvard skeletons and white elephants that you'll never get now," one official, who asked to remain nameless, said...
...film opens with the murder of Page Forrester (Maria Mayenzet), a rich socialite whose death transfers untold amounts of money and power to her husband Jack (Jeff Bridges.) Cynical readers, at this point, will immediately infer that Jack must have killed his wife. They will be convinced of this logical conclusion even further when they are told that a hunting knife identical to the murder weapon is conveniently located in Jack's locker at the country club. But it is not wise to be so smug about one's superiority as a sleuth when only the first 15 minutes...