Word: docs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done everything short of force to show its displeasure with the way Dictator Francois Duvalier runs Haiti - cut off aid, evacuated U.S. citizens, stationed an amphibious assault force off the coast, brought home its ambassador and urged other hemisphere nations to do likewise. But "Papa Doc" Duvalier, whose term as President should legally have ended on May 15, ignored all the pressures, while tightening his hold on the small Caribbean nation. Last week the U.S. caved in, recalled the assault force and told its charge d'affaires in Port-au-Prince to "resume normal diplomatic relations." The Haitian radio...
...Haiti. How far the U.S. would go was unclear. The question is: After Duvalier, what? The Haitians in exile are poorly organized and mostly led by men whose past records would earn them a small hello. Inside Haiti, Duvalier's strongest enemy is little better than "Papa Doc" himself. He is Clement Barbot, 49, a longtime Duvalier crony and killer, who bossed the dread Tonton Macoute goon squads until Duvalier turned on him in 1960. Barbot spent 18 months in his own jail, then was released and went underground, swearing to assassinate his former mentor...
According to Haiti's constitution, the six-year term of President Francios Duvalier ended last week on May 15. But the dictator of the Negro republic in the Caribbean who calls himself "Papa Doc," has his own way of interpreting constitutions. In legislative elections two years ago, he had his name printed at the top of every ballot, then announced that everyone who voted had thereby unanimously elected him to a new six-year term. So now, as all could see, he still had four years to go. With bland audacity, Duvalier received foreign newsmen last week...
...first of 1,300 U.S. citizens advised by the State Department to leave because of continued deterioration on the small Caribbean island. In a week of urgent diplomatic maneuver and in an atmosphere of violence and vengeance, everyone waited to see whether the dictator who calls himself "Papa Doc" would fall, and in falling bring on another of the blood baths that have marked the small Negro republic's history. In his white Port-au-Prince palace. Duvalier clung to power, guarded by his Tonton Macoute hoodlums. There was sporadic fighting between Duvalier's men and the emboldened...
...obedient crowd of 10,000, mostly ragged peasants trucked into the capital to hear the man who calls himself "Papa Doc," Duvalier declared: "I am the personification of the Haitian nation. I will keep power. God is the only one who can take it from...