Word: dictatorship
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...winner seemed to be Leslie Manigat, 57, a former political science professor who fled Haiti during the Duvalier dictatorship and spent 23 years in exile in France and Venezuela. A preliminary tally indicated that Manigat won slightly more than 50% of the vote. Brigadier General Henri Namphy, head of the country's three-man military junta, initially favored another candidate, but Manigat apparently won the last-minute support of the junta's Brigadier General Williams Regala and another top military leader. "Manigat could only get to where he has got through an obscure, rigged situation," says a Haitian social scientist...
...expected to take 80% of the vote last November, are refusing to participate. Instead, they have called for an election boycott that is supported by some 50 civic, religious and community associations throughout Haiti. Of the 22 candidates registered for the race, twelve were associates of the former Duvalier dictatorship; under the new constitution, that should prevent them from running for public office for a decade. All twelve were disqualified from the November contest. At the end of last week Namphy, in an apparent bid to lend the elections credibility, again sidelined the Duvalierist candidates. Namphy's personal favorite...
...should not get carried away. The Soviet Union is still a one-party dictatorship, the economy is ramshackle, the bureaucracy is a menace, and what about human rights, Mr. General Secretary? Nonetheless, Soviet writers, artists and journalists have begun issuing the sort of critiques that used to earn a one-way ticket to Siberia. So has the boss. Take, for instance, this blast at Gosplon, the state planning committee: "They do what they want, and the situation they like best is . . . when everybody...
...going to vote anyway. "Even if we are massacred by the hundreds, we will never turn back," pledges Rocourt of the beleaguered electoral council. The costs may prove steep, but nearly two years after the hated Duvaliers were ousted, many Haitians would pay almost any price to avoid another dictatorship...
...brink of anarchy. In some areas law and order have virtually broken down, and an estimated 500 people have been killed in random and often gruesome violence. At the same time, the country was struggling with democratic procedures that were unfamiliar to Haitians after three decades of dictatorship by the Duvalier family...