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The government pamphlets circulating in Port-au-Prince last week left little to the imagination. "Dr. Francois Duvalier will fulfill his sacrosanct mission. He has crushed and will always crush the attempts of the opposition. Think well, renegades. Here is the fate awaiting you and your kind." Below was a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: A Warning to Renegades | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

"Welcome to Haiti," read the huge sign on Port-au-Prince's Main Street near Bowen Airport. Near by, tied to a wooden chair in a police pickup truck, was a bloated yellow corpse, covered with flies. The display, on view for 24 hours and set up just 15...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Going Badly for Papa Doc | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

The body was the grisliest evidence yet that the guerrilla war in Haiti's backlands is not going well for Duvalier. According to reports filtering out of Haiti, three separate bands of rebels are fighting in southern and western Haiti-two groups, with about 80 men, calling themselves the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Going Badly for Papa Doc | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

Whether the guerrillas pose a serious threat to Papa Doc's dictatorship remains to be seen. But his nerves are starting to show. His internal military radio in Port-au-Prince has been heard exhorting militiamen in the field to capture "just one-just one prisoner." The militia commander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Going Badly for Papa Doc | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

The fact is that the rebels are mostly the sons of middle-class Haitians driven into exile by Duvalier, and could come from anywhere around the Caribbean.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Going Badly for Papa Doc | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

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