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...decades, the mostly poor and illiterate people of Haiti (pop. 6 million) have accepted their fate at the hands of corrupt dictators. But in recent months a combination of blatant economic mismanagement, lavish corruption surrounding President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier and brutal repression of those who protest his regime has brought increasing numbers of Haitians to a stark conclusion: enough is enough...
With the departure of his closest aides, President-for-Life Duvalier, after almost 15 years in power, has managed to isolate himself politically. When he took over the government in 1971 at the age of 19 after the death of his father, Dr. Frangois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, the chubby youth raised popular hopes by promising economic reforms and easing some of his father's police-state tactics. But if the younger Duvalier at first proved less tyrannical than his father, he and his cronies did not hesitate to carry out what one businessman calls "the economic rape of Haiti." Among...
...help get more of them up and running. In New York's Hudson Valley, the Taconic Health Information Network and Community serves 600,000 patients along with area doctors, hospitals, labs, pharmacies, insurers, employers and consumers. If a resident makes an emergency-room visit on a Saturday, the ER doc can pull the patient's records from his personal physician...
...investigating if members violate House rules. That committee didn't meet for several months this year because Democrats were protesting GOP changes to its rules. Republicans reversed those rule changes, but now the committee is fighting over how its staff should be organized. The Ethics Committee's Chairman, Rep. Doc Hastings, wants to put one of his staffers in a position as co-director of the committee, to allow him to oversee it more closely. The other co-director would be a staffer from the office of Alan Mollohan, the top Democrat on the committee. But Mollohan, as well...
Died. Jose Melis, 85, Havana-born bandleader for The Tonight Show whose affectionate bantering with host Jack Paar, an old Army buddy, set the model for Doc Severinsen, Paul Shaffer and other late-night musician sidekicks who followed; in Sun City, Ariz...