Word: au
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cote li, cote li?" cried the black workers of Port-au-Prince last week, tears in their eyes. But Daniel Fignole, their idol, could not tell them where he was. He had gone. Nineteen days after he vaulted to power as Provisional President, the silver-tongued mathematics professor, who boasted he could unleash a "steam roller" of black supporters, fell without a shot fired. He went meekly into exile, and was replaced by a military junta...
...eight buildings, sacked a government warehouse. Truckloads of soldiers rolled up, sprayed the wailing, raging rioters with gunfire in the light of the flames and machine-gunned their flimsy shacks. Trucks loaded with prisoners taken at bayonet point rolled off to the jails, and the morgues of Port-au-Prince were full...
Into the big white presidential palace, over the rich red carpets, the sweating, ill-dressed black people of Port-au-Prince swarmed last week. They stood in the elegant corridors and squatted in the yellow-draped reception room, waiting for a glimpse of the slim mathematics professor who took power a few days before. When he left the palace, they ran alongside his car, shouting their affection for 42-year-old acting President Daniel Fignole...
Fignole's popular appeal is natural. He comes from poor peasant parents, struggled for an education, discovered a hypnotic gift of speech, organized the poor blacks of Port-au-Prince and turned them against the well-off mulatto elite. Preaching a race struggle, Rabble-Rouser Fignole promised the blacks cars, houses and the mistresses of the rich. "Haiti for the black Haitians!" he cried. In more recent years he has tried to forget such anti-elite demagoguery...
...PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, May 27--Haiti pulled back from the brink of anarchy today and went back to work under peasant-labor leader Daniel Fignole. He is the third provisional president in the five months since the Magloire regime...