Haitis Duvalier Era Harsh Crackdown Targets Opposition Reporters
Two Haitian journalists, Jean-Paul Herard and Pierre Clitandre of Le Samedi Soir, were arrested in Port-au-Prince on subversion and obstructing arrest charges. They described beatings in Casernes Dessalines prison, extortion of exile, and mass detentions of professionals opposing Duvalier. They arrived in Miami with other refugees as U.S. officials debate aid and visas.
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Ana Veciana-Suarez
Heather Deward Cox
Miami
Port-au-Prince
Haiti
Jean-Paul Herard
Pierre Clitandre
le Samedi Soir
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Duvalier
Herard
Clitandre
Richard Brisson
Radio Haiti-Inter
Elsie Etheart
Radio-Metropole
Nicole Magloire
Gregoire Eugene Jr
Christian Democratic Party
Albert Pierre
Portau-Prince
Casernes Dessalines
Cayo Lobos
State Department
New York
Sue Sullivan
Washington
U.S
International Human Rights Day and Amnesty International
Today marks International Human Rights Day and the 32nd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Amnesty International, founded in London, leads global campaigns for prisoners of conscience, nonviolence advocates, and individuals facing political oppression.
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United Nations General Assembly
Soviet Union
Poland
Britain
France
Nazi Germany
Afghanistan
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Ethiopia
Manchuria
Austria
League of Nations
United Nations
Amnesty International
London
U.N
South Korea
Kim Dae-jung
Critique of Thompson Budget Ballot on Illinois University Pay
A Carbondale speech by Gov. Thompson appointee Robert Mandeville criticizes plans to limit university funding and salaries. The piece argues such cuts hurt faculty and campus competitiveness and urges the governor to reaffirm support for higher education and salary catch-up. Kenneth Shaw of SIU warns of cutthroat funding competition if these ideas persist.
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Carbondale
Robert Mandeville
James R. Thompson
Illinois
Mandeville
Thompson
Kenneth Buzbee
Illinois Board of Higher Education
SIU
Kenneth Shaw
The Dream Is Over Lennon Shot In New York
John Lennon was killed by bullets in New York at age 40 ending a life that shaped music and culture. His songs with Paul McCartney became a global voice for freedom and youth, leaving a world bereft as the dream and promise he carried was suddenly silenced.
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John Lennon
New York
America
Paul McCartney
Beatles
Kwangju
Kim
Seoul
Chun
Choi Kyu-hah
U.S
Democratic Welfare Society
U S Pleads to Save Kim Dae Jung in Korea
The United States presses to save dissident Kim Dae Jung from death sentence by a martial law court. Ambassador Greysteen met South Korea's acting foreign minister as Washington weighs how to influence Chun Doo harl. The case raises questions over the trial's statutes and Kim's alleged North Korean links.
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Henry Scott Stokes
New York Times
Seoul
South Korea
United States
Kim Dae-jung
U.S
William H. Greysteen Jr
Kim Dong-whie
Kim
State Department
Hanmintong
Tokyo
Chun
Korean Central Intelligency Agency
Kim Young-sam
New Democratic Party
Kim Jong-pil
Democratic Republican Party
Kims
Kwangju
El Salvador Refugee Child Amid Civil War Killings
Reynaldo Fuentes, an 11 year old orphan, works 16 hours daily on a San Salvador bus earning $1.50 for meals while fleeing a deadly conflict. The civil war has killed about 8,500 people this year and driven tens of thousands to camps run by the Roman Catholic Church as right wing violence rises.
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Clifford Krauss
Atlanta Constitution
San Salvador
el Salvador
Reynaldo Fuentes
Reynaldo
Charles Dickens
Salvador
Jocoaitique
Christian Democratic Party
Carter
Democratic Revolutionary Front
Argentina
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Ireland
Mairead Corrigan
Orden
Evangelina Cartagena
Domus Marine
Junta
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Southern Illinois
John C. Gardner
Peter W. Selkowe
Human Rights At Bay
Theople
Etheart
William Lehman
Fra
Congress
Lehman
House Foreign Relations Appropriations
Amnesty International and Human Rights
Korea
South Chona
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