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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like any other voodoo mystic, Haitian Dictator François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier has his good-luck day: the 22nd. He was elected "President" on Sept. 22, 1957, inaugurated Oct. 22, then installed as "President for Life" on June 22, 1964. Some Haitians even credit his occult powers with the Nov. 22, 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, a longtime foe. But last Jan. 22, Duvalier's luck suddenly seemed to turn when one of his two DC-3s crashed on Haiti's southern peninsula, crippling his rickety little air force. Haitians hopefully spread the word that Duvalier might...
Fully half of Haiti's $28 million yearly budget goes into the pockets of Papa Doc, his Tonton Macoute, and other loyal supporters. The other half goes to government operations, which have all but shut down. Phone service is nearly dead. Lights wink on and off fitfully. Main waterfront roads are pot-holed or sometimes buried in six inches of muddy ooze. Business is grinding to a halt in the same way-partly owing to stiff taxes and partly to the emergence of a new, uneducated and sadly unprepared black elite that is replacing the bright, well-trained mulattoes...
Dubious Honor. From one of the hemisphere's newest countries, Selassie was scheduled to proceed to one of its oldest-Haiti. There, conditions are so bleak under Dictator François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier that the country is hardly in better shape than when it won independence from France in 1804. Determined to give Selassie a proper reception, the government scraped deep into its depleted treasury for $100,000, used it to plant flagpoles along the two-mile length of road from the airport to the capital of Port-au-Prince, place festive flags all over the city...
...losses that could total up to $20 million. Nor did the union win any concessions on the issue over which it had struck: its demand for the restoration of 18,000 firemen's jobs eliminated as obsolete under a federal arbitration ruling. Said Railroad Negotiator J. E. ("Doc") Wolfe: "That issue has been permanently laid to rest...
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...