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Carnival, the pre-Lent celebration of food, music and merrymaking, came two days early to Miami's Little Haiti this year. After Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier boarded a plane for France last week, hundreds of Haitian immigrants, some still dressed in their pajamas, streamed into the streets...
In the meantime, the Haitian aliens have seen their work permits revoked and have lost their federal benefits, including unemployment compensation. Outside their tightly knit communities, they have been shunned for their disputed link to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and often misunderstood for the practice of voodoo that many of...
Your editorial of Feb. 12, on Haiti adopts the tone that the United States was responsible for the Duvalier dynasty's rule, and that we should now provide aid to Haiti as a form of reparations. I personally think that both charity and self-interest should motivate us to help...
Your editorial rests on two false assumptions: 1. The United States Government is some kind of devil that likes regimes such as the Duvalier's, or considers them expedient. 2. American "support" kept the Duvaliers in power.
The Duvalier regime maintained itself by force of arms. Nothing we could have done by means of economic sanctions, or even force, could have restored the Haitian people to freedom until they were ready to sieze it themselves. That they could get rid of Duvalier themselves was shown last week...