Word: docs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...broke one guy's hand, another guy's wrist." Without irony, Gooden's playmates took to calling him Doctor. Dan Gooden believes his son's nickname came from an infielder's chatter: "C'mon, Dr. Dwight, operate on him!" Youmans says, "It was just always Dr. D, or Doc." It evolved naturally into Dr. K, the initial taken from the scorebook shorthand for a strikeout...
Just six weeks after President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier fled to France, Haitians were again in revolt against their government. Many were indignant at the failure of the five-member ruling National Council of Government to begin addressing the impoverished country's problems. That resentment boiled over when an irate army captain ordered his men to beat a bus driver after a routine traffic incident, sparking strikes last week that left the country's public transportion completely paralyzed. In response, troops opened fire on demonstrators, killing at least four people. Mobs blocked off routes leading...
...membership is scattered. Ferdinand Marcos will evidently settle in Hawaii. "Baby Doc" Duvalier has moved to the French Riviera, at least for the time being. Uganda's Idi Amin has managed to make himself all but invisible in Saudi Arabia. The Central African Republic's Emperor Bokassa has found a home near Paris. And so on. But such men are rarely welcomed, and never feel at home, in the places where the jet stream has deposited them. They keep out of sight...
...pain of being a pariah! French authorities last week allowed Jean- Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, Haiti's ousted dictator, to quit the lakeside luxury hotel where he, his wife Michele and their entourage have holed up for a month. His destination: St. Vallier-de-Thiey, a pastoral community within minutes of the silvery beaches of the French Riviera. Baby Doc has reportedly been placed under a relaxed form of house arrest that limits his movements to the immediate area...
...room villa with five acres of land, a tennis court and a swimming pool. But the former dictator has even grander designs in the region, namely, a $7 million chateau nearby with 240 acres. Duvalier's arrival was met with local protests. While authorities deny that Baby Doc will be permitted to live in France permanently, no country has yet offered him refuge, and the French seem resigned to letting him stay on--at least long enough to get his backhand in shape...