Word: docs
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...recruits (starting salary: $17,800). Another 100 U.S. Customs Service agents have been assigned to the region to chase down drug smugglers. South Florida can also look for help from Governor Graham. He is constantly lobbying Washington for more aid, and earlier this year he met with Baby Doc Duvalier in Haiti to discuss ways to staunch the flow of refugees. He lent 100 additional state troopers to Miami this year, and hopes to assign 115 troopers to Dade County permanently...
Still they come, for Haiti is both a desperately poor country?its per capita income of $260 a year is among the world's lowest?and an oppressive dictatorship, ruled by Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. The Reagan Administration holds that nearly all the Haitian refugees are fleeing their country to escape poverty, not repression, and are thus not eligible to be admitted as political refugees. Others believe that many of the refugees are indeed entitled to political asylum, and cite evidence of those returned being beaten and tortured in Haitian prisons. As Father Gérard Jean-Juste, a Haitian...
Hope Somoza, the widow of the Nicaraguan President, lives in Key Biscayne. Nicole Duvalier, who opposes her brother Baby Doc, owns a sumptuous home in southwest Miami. The son of the late Fulgencio Batista, former President of Cuba, works as a model in Fort Lauderdale. A retired leader of the Tonton Macoute, the Haitian secret police, lives in Miami. Says one leading political exile, alive...
...very fit team, so once we get rolling, the other team usually weakens," captain A1 "Doc" Halliday declared after the game. "When our backs start getting the ball often, we're hard to bear...
With a large crowd cheering them on, the Tigers came out Saturday hungry for revenge. They scored the first points of the contest when Harvard captain A1 "Doc" Halliday tapped the ball over the head of the Crimson scrum, and an opportunistic Princeton player dove on the ball to score...