Word: avril
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti--Shooting broke out early yesterday near the presidential palace, and a source close to the government said loyal soldiers had foiled an attempt to overthrow the government of Lt. Gen. Prosper Avril...
Five soldiers of the Presidential Guard arrived at independent radio station Liberte at 11:45 a.m. yesterday to deny the reports Avril had been ousted...
...announcement read by a soldier identified only as Georges Metayer said: "President Avril is in the National Palace...there's no problem in the army...
...Haitian government source said shortly after daybreak three military officers, including Maj. Gen. Herard Abraham, the army commander in chief, had overthrown Avril and that Abraham was placed in charge of the government. The source spoke on condition of anonymity...
...other landless peasants to improve their lot. Hope flared briefly in 1986, when Haitians rebelled and forced "President-for-Life" Jean-Claude Duvalier into exile. Since then, the government has changed hands three times, most recently last month, when a coup installed the regime of Lieut. General Prosper Avril. No matter how good Avril's intentions are, however, Haiti is so dirt poor, literally, that it may never flourish again...