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Another retread from past U.S. foreign adventures is Henry Womack, who helped oversee construction of the base that the Reagan Administration-back ed contras used to stage attacks against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. By day Womack tends his southern Florida storm-shutter business. At night he hunkers down in an eight-bedroom yellow stucco house in South Miami with Francois' sister Elsie and her husband Charles Joseph. Their aim is to assist Haiti's military in presenting a "fresh face" to the world. Womack says he offers Haiti's rulers "a white man's thinking." Joseph has paid visits...
Some of the doings of this Miami trio border on the farcical. Womack complains that his phone has been temporarily disconnected because of his constant calls to Port-au-Prince. "I can't get reimbursed for the $3,000 I owe the phone company," he says. Although firmly supportive of Haiti's military regime, Womack says he "got involved with these folks initially last spring to do business." He details an elaborate plan to tap U.S. aid funds for low-interest loans that would be used to transport New York City garbage to Haiti, where it would be processed into...
Acting History Department Chair John Womack Jr. says the department has tried to make appointments in the last year, but has either not found appropriate candidates or has not been able to attract them here, because of considerations the recruits were forced to make regarding their spouses...
...There are more first-rate universities than years ago," says Womack. "Before, it used to be they would drop everything to come to Harvard...
...some ways, if it's one year, it won't make that much of a difference," says Womack. "But if he's leaving for good, it's a much bigger deal...