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Haitians call Duvalier's private bully boys the Tonton Macoutes, which means "bogeymen" in Creole. They are paid as much as $30 a month (high pay by Haitian standards), plus whatever they can extort from merchants and businessmen. When Duvalier wants to hold a rally, the Macoutes use their muscle to organize the crowds, commandeer trucks to carry the rooters to the appointed place. When Duvalier wants the opposition squashed, the Macoutes do the job. Three weeks ago, one of the "vagrant law officers" halted a bus near the village of Gressier, 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince...
...that the diplomats of the U.S., Britain, France, Canada, Italy and Germany lodged strong protests with Duvalier's foreign office on behalf of their frightened nationals. The foreign ministry's reply: "You say your people are afraid. Of what?" Snapped one diplomat: "They are afraid of the bogeymen...
...angry diplomatic protests two months ago eased the shakedown of foreign nationals. But this is unlikely to end the bogeymen's depredations against their own people...
...Hakim-Rimpel was kidnaped from her home by Tonton Macoutes. She was taken to a local lovers' lane in St. Martin woods, beaten, raped, and mutilated. Says a foreign diplomat: "Duvalier's real contribution to Haitian history is government by gang. He is the king of the bogeymen...
...taking power, Castro has worked tirelessly to mold his nation's youth into loyal-and militant-Communist cadres. Reading primers assure that the first name youngsters learn to spell is Fidel or Raúl, that their first animal stories are set on collective farms, that their first bogeymen are Yanqui imperialists. With piping voices, Cuba's fourth-graders sing a jingle taught by their energetic teachers...