Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formally reconvened the Council and announced: "I am the President of the Republic and of the Council of State." He accepted the resignation of Balaguer (who had prudently taken asylum in the residence of the papal nuncio), and then came the cheers, the backslaps and embraces. The only foreign diplomat invited to the celebration: able young (40) Charge Hill, representing...
...called the Tonton Macoute (Creole for "bogeyman") circulated among Haiti's foreign and domestic businessmen soliciting "contributions" of up to $40,000 for a fancy housing project called Duvalierville. Some who refused to ante up were brutally beaten. The situation got so far out of hand 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...
...outside Port-au-Prince; some have been blinded by the beatings, some deafened, some killed. Newspaper Editor Madame Yvonne 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...
Fellowships for graduate study in the field of international relations have recently been established at the University in memory of Ray Atherton '05, career diplomat and the first U.S. Ambassador to Canada...
Married. Conor Cruise O'Brien, 44, explosive veteran diplomat who resigned last month from the Irish foreign service and from his Congo post as U.N. chief in Katanga in protest at British and French encouragement of Katanga's secessionist President Tshombe; and Moira MacEntee, 39, daughter of Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister Sean MacEntee; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan...