Word: haitian
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...Fletcher, from the Roxbury-based United Community Construction Workers, Hugo Morales, from the United Farm Worker's (UFW) Support Committee, and Jean-Calude Martino, from the Haitian Action Committee echoed Jharad's call for a unified working class movement...
...West German ambassador, Count Karl von Spreti, by Guatemalan guerrillas. Over the past five years, eight U.S. diplomats and embassy officials have been involved in kidnaping incidents. In January, Ambassador to Haiti Clinton Knox and Consul Ward Christensen were seized at gunpoint and released only after the Haitian government paid a ransom of $70,000 and freed twelve political prisoners...
...Knox would have been quite factual if you had not written that the French Ambassador persuaded the Haitian government to pay the ransom demanded...
Knox immediately called Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, Haiti's 21 -year-old President for Life. The Haitian government said that it could not find or identify 19 of the requested prisoners, but agreed to release the other twelve. The mustachioed leader of the kidnapers then demanded a ransom of $1,000,000. In Washington, Secretary of State William Rogers flatly refused to pay the sum out of fear of encouraging kidnapers elsewhere...
Acting as an intermediary, French Ambassador Bernard Dorin persuaded the Haitian government to pay as much of the ransom as it could raise within the kidnapers' four-hour time limit -$70,000. He then persuaded the kidnapers to take the money and the dozen released prisoners and go to Mexico. Kidnapers and hostages drove together to the airport, then parted company beside the four-engine...