Word: frac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Haiti's President Fracçois Duvalier is a man with many real troubles. He is beset at home by an opposition that plots and throws bombs constantly; he is beset east and west by the Dominican Republic and Cuba, which keep trying to strike at each other through Haiti. But he has one powerful friend, the U.S., which sent him 50 marines to train his army and has had destroyers around the Windward Passage to discourage seaborne invasion. Last week one of Duvalier's tactical companies crept up on the 30-man invasion force that slipped...
...Archbishop Fracçois Poirier, Haiti's highest prelate, who is also French-born and white, this was too much. He notified parish priests up and down the island of the expulsions, followed with a denunciation of the government's action. Duvalier retaliated with a warrant for the archbishop's arrest for violating the 1860 Haiti-Vatican Concordat, which binds priests "to do nothing against the interests of the republic...