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Corpses have their own body language. Jean Vernet II's memories of Haiti under the dictatorial rule of Jean (Papa Doc) Duvalier are written in the patois of the murdered, and even today, decades later, the images of twisted limbs and fallen forms haunt him--and remind him of what can happen when ordinary people have no voice...
...disagree with Duvalier meant death. The chaos he created still stifles Haitian life," says Vernet, 49, a Haitian-American activist. In 1968 Vernet and his family fled Haiti and moved to New York City. In the aftermath of the rebel takeover of the Haitian government earlier this year, Vernet is seeking to sponsor democracy in his mother country by championing political participation in the U.S. Haitians make up one of the largest immigrant groups in New York City without a City Council member from its ranks. Vernet's organization, Initiatives Democratiques, has set up voter-registration drives in New York...
...more immigrants to become U.S. citizens by running a series of newspaper and television ads that, starting in September, will target New York City's 200,000 Haitians, some of whom are undocumented day laborers. "We are no longer a quasi-exile community who will return to Haiti shortly," Vernet says. "It is O.K. to be American." --By Peter Bailey
...political blood, the opposition appeared intent on keeping up the pressure to force the government into making full disclosures about the New Zealand operation. For Le Monde and the other publications, questions remained. What did Hernu know, and who gave the order? Said the paper's executive editor, Daniel Vernet: "I'm not sure we'll ever know, but we'll try . . . to get the answers." Mitterrand's decisive action last week may have averted a governmental crisis, but the taint of political liability remained...
...Argentines declared their independence in 1816, they claimed they had inherited Spanish sovereignty over the offshore islands that they called Las Malvinas. Nobody paid much attention, however, and several years passed before the Argentines made any attempt to take possession. They then appointed an ambitious cosmopolitan named Louis Vernet to be governor of the Malvinas, with exclusive fishing rights in the surrounding waters. That brought on a clash in 1831 with a new power: the U.S. Three American sealing schooners denied Vernet's authority, so Vernet seized them and took one ship with its crew to Buenos Aires for prosecution...