Word: bogeymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commander of Port-au-Prince and the hus band of Duvalier's 26-year-old daughter, was sent packing off to Madrid as Haiti's Ambassador to Spain. As Dominique's plane taxied down the strip, Duvalier's private Gestapo or Tonton Macoutes (Creole for bogeymen), jumped Dominique's two bodyguards and chauffeur, then hustled the three men off to jail. Last month Duvalier dismissed Dominique from the army "for the good of the service," and ordered his son-in-law to return to Haiti to stand trial for "desertion, mutiny and treason." Dominique...
...encomiums on God, states' rights, victory in Viet Nam and, of course, himself. He will probably run for President on a third-party ticket, he said, because all the other potential candidates are too liberal. The promises of conventional conservatives to protect state and local governments from the bogeymen in Washington will not do, Wallace insisted. Said he: "They've got to put the hay down where the goats...
...response was automatic. While the sirens of ambulances pierced the air and the government-controlled radio station called for all doctors to report to the city's general hospital, he ordered the mobilization of Haiti's trigger-happy militia, known as the Tonton Macoute, or bogeymen. Duvalier also placed the country's 5,000-man regular army on alert...
...people into numb submission. Life expectancy is 32.6 years. Per-capita income is $70 a year. Population density is the highest in the hemisphere. Illiteracy runs 90%. "Haitians," Duvalier says quietly, "have a destiny to suffer." Duvalier's 5,000-man Tonton Macoute (Creole for bogeymen) roam the country, soaking up blood money from businessmen, torturing and murdering suspected anti-Duvalieristes-sometimes even slaughtering whole families. Early this year, one mutilated corpse lay a whole day in the Port-au-Prince sun, as a grim lesson to Haitians...
Haiti makes a perfect setting for such refugees from reality: an "evil slum floating a few miles from Florida," fretted with armed roadblocks, policed by bogeymen in black sunglasses -Papa Doc's Tontons Macoute...