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...looking for votes in some distant election, dispensing pork- barrel promises, anti-U.S. rhetoric and a little voodoo. His two-car convoy heads for the hamlet of Montrouis, where he stops for cola drinks and conch while shaking the hands of awed peasants. In the town of St. Marc he promises an electrification project, then tucks into a helping of fried goat. Later he rants to farmers about Haiti's exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and promises that FRAPH will poison the water supply of any U.S. invaders. "Down with Aristide!" the farmers cheer. "FRAPH forever...
...main reason for the protest: Montana's unenforced "deviate sexual conduct" law, theoretically among the nation's harshest, deeming gay sexual contact a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. When Governor Marc Racicot said last year he would support repeal, he got hundreds of angry letters, some threatening his family. For gays, the issue is dignity. Montana law prohibits harassment of sports officials and livestock, but not of them...
After the Ravenswood Aluminum Co. locked out members of the USW from a mill in West Virginia and hired nonunion workers to replace them, the AFL-CIO traced the company's ownership to Marc Rich. He is a former commodities speculator who fled the U.S., pursued by a flock of indictments, and rules interests throughout Europe. For almost two years, at the U.S. federation's request, unions in 20 countries harassed and disrupted Rich's activities until, in mid-1992, he ended the West Virginia lockout...
...Marc McKay '94, who is currently running for a seat in the Iowa state House, says he agrees with Ellenborgen's point. "People in the political scene are receptive to hard work... There's no need to transcend the system," he said from Iowa in a recent phone interview...
...time in recent memory has that macabre word been heard so consistently set next to the adjective "pulled" as in talk of the 1993-94 Harvard baseball team. Three key players this past season--sophomore Joe Weidenbach, junior Bryan Brissette and sophomore Marc Levy--all went down with the painful malady whose very utterance might evoke cringes...