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Last week 2,391,916 residents of Haiti voted out to "Papa Doc" Duvalier's proposal that he be succeeded by his hulking son, Jean-Claude, 19. If anybody voted non, the Port-au-Prince papers did not mention...
...while Max was commanding Port-au-Prince's military district, a letter turned up on Papa Doc's desk accusing him and 19 other officers of plotting against the government. The other 19 were executed, but Dédé man aged to coax her father into sparing her husband. She and Max were allowed to go into exile, and Max be came Haiti's Ambassador to Spain. Eighteen months later, Dédé returned to Port-au-Prince and deftly arranged the removal of her enemies from her father's palace staff. When...
Diplomats are expected to do their best to get to be au courant with the fundamental developments in art, as in everything else. Therefore Russian Ambassador to France M. Valerian Zorin kept his eyes peeled as he moved through the recent opening of the annual "Painters, Witness of Their Times" show in Paris. Going in the opposite direction was Brigitte Bardot-not exactly the living end, but a sculpture by Mougin...
...elevation came at an Army Day ceremony last November. As Papa Doc sat on the palace balcony, Jean-Claude rose in his father's place and accepted the salute. The army's general staff was furious. Out went the general staff, along with the Port-au-Prince police chief. In as chief of staff came Brigadier General Claude Raymond, 40, Papa Doc's tough godson, who previously commanded the presidential guard, the military academy and the deadly Tonton Macoutes, the secret police. If Jean-Claude is to make it to the top, he will probably have...
...fact that Duvalier has finally arranged for a successor after 13 years of absolute rule suggests that he may be succumbing to chronic heart disease and diabetes. There were rumors in Port-au-Prince, in fact, that his doctors had ordered him to quit as President. There was one small problem, but Haiti's obedient National Assembly last week overcame it by voting unanimously to lower the constitutional minimum age for a President from 40 to 20 and giving Papa Doc the legal power to name his successor. For good measure, the government decreed that Jean-Claude is really...