In 1983, diatribes about Michele were even more widespread, many dealing with her struggle with Roger Lafontant, one of the so-called superministers who, rumor had it, were running the country for Baby Doc.

In the 1967 attacks Witnesses reported the rapings of more than one thousand of their women, one mother being sexually violated by six different men, her thirteen-year-old daughter by three men.

the gold-washings, or silver-washings

There were, of course, ways of obtaining the drug which didn't involve doctors or pharmacies—from private parties to bars selling alcoholic blends such as the ‘Guided Missile’ (a double shot of vodka plus two Miltowns) and the perennially popular ‘Miltini’ (a dry martini with a pill replacing the olive).