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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...
Terror & Submission. In eight ruthless years, Duvalier has terrorized his 4,500,000 people into numb submission. Life expectancy is 32.6 years. Per-capita income is $70 a year. Population density is the highest in the hemisphere. Illiteracy runs 90%. "Haitians," Duvalier says quietly, "have a destiny to suffer." Duvalier...
A Castro Call. Exiles in New York, Miami and Nassau only shrug at such gestures. Never at a loss for rumors, exiles were brimming with an entirely new crop last week, hinting at possible coup attempts inside Haiti and new guerrilla invasions. To help pave the way, "The Voice of...
After nine small guerrilla invasions and as many bomb plots, some Haitian exiles feel that Papa Doc should simply be left alone to mismanage himself into collapse. Even at that, there is strong doubt that he would ever surrender office voluntarily. He is bound up almost mystically with his job...
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...