Word: duvalierization
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HAITI Pooh-Bah By invitation of the President, about 30 young Haitians leaped astride their yammering motorcycles one recent Sunday afternoon and raced wildly up and down the broad avenues beside the gleaming white national palace and the mustard-yellow army barracks in the center of Port-au-Prince. Afterward...
Feudal Power. Some people believe Joe Bonanno was actually kidnaped and got his captors to release him by agreeing to give up his New York activities. He was then supposed to have reneged and fled to Haiti, where he had gambling interests under the protection of the late dictator, Fran...
Heirs to Juárez. The Dominican Republic and Haiti have Mexico to thank for their new source of income. Troubled by the tawdry image of the Ciudad Juárez divorce factory, Mexican federal authorities last year successfully pressed for an end to the practice. Haiti's late...
Sir: In your article on Haiti [May 3] you mention the late Francois Duvalier's secret police, the Tontons Macoutes, and define this term as Creole for "bogeyman." This would be better interpreted as a Creole corruption of tontons m'ecoutent, which is colloquial French for "The uncles...
Died. Dr. Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, 64, demagogic ruler of Haiti since 1957 (see THE WORLD).