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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Duvalier or Death," read the crudely lettered placards, and 20,000 bewildered peasants herded into Port au Prince obediently tootled bamboo horns, honked on conch shells, and flew kites with painted pictures of "The Renovator." Having brought a crowd to cheer, the dictator who masquerades as Haiti's constitutionally elected President, showed himself in public again and again last week, telling his Negro people that Haiti's problems are economic, not political, and that he has no quarrel with "Monsieur Kennedy, who believes that our continent should be a community of free and independent states." Yet everywhere...
...every ballot, then announced that everyone who voted had thereby unanimously elected him to a new six-year term. So now, as all could see, he still had four years to go. With bland audacity, Duvalier received foreign newsmen last week at a press conference in Port-au-Prince's National Palace. "Gentlemen," he said in cool, precise English, "I wish to take this opportunity to assure our friends in the Western Hemisphere that Haiti will continue under my administration as a peaceful, nonaggressive nation...
...graft-ridden regime held power, with the help of his cocky Tonton Macoute hoodlums. The neighboring Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, had threatened to invade Haiti unless Duvalier granted safe-conduct to 23 refugees who had taken asylum at the Dominican embassy in Port-au-Prince. Duvalier obligingly granted safe-conduct to 20 of the 23, and Dominican President Juan Bosch pulled back some of his troops from the border...
...Duvalier persisted into his unconstitutional second term, Venezuela and Costa Rica broke diplomatic relations. The U.S., in an odd neither-this-nor-that diplomatic maneuver, "suspended contacts" with Haiti. Ambassador Raymond L. Thurston was ordered to remain in Port-au-Prince, but to have absolutely no conversation with Duvalier's government. Along with about 200 other U.S. dependents, Ambassador Thurston's wife was sent home. Duvalier was still in power, but his security remained precarious. Ready to move in if things got out of hand, a U.S. task force, headed by the helicopter carrier Boxer with a reinforced...
...urgent diplomatic maneuver and in an atmosphere of violence and vengeance, everyone waited to see whether the dictator who calls himself "Papa Doc" would fall, and in falling bring on another of the blood baths that have marked the small Negro republic's history. In his white Port-au-Prince palace. Duvalier clung to power, guarded by his Tonton Macoute hoodlums. There was sporadic fighting between Duvalier's men and the emboldened opposition, and dark rumors of many deaths. Diplomatically, the arguments turned on the safety of 103 Haitians who had taken asylum at Latin American embassies...