Word: haitianize
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...ritual of Haitian politics, what was happening was a dechoukage, a "rooting out" of Duvalierists. The military and civilian mutinies appear to have been provoked by the barbarism of an attack on worshipers at a Port- au-Prince church, St. Jean Bosco, three Sundays ago. The attack, which left 13 dead and 77 injured, was staged by the Tonton Macoutes, the vicious thugs who terrorized Haiti under the Duvaliers. Under Lieut. General Henri Namphy, leader of the just ousted regime, and particularly Port-au-Prince mayor Franck Romain, the Macoutes have enjoyed a comeback...
...country's leader. He and Franck Romain, mayor of the capital city of Port-au- Prince, were taken to Haiti's international airport to be put on a Sunday flight to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, where they have been granted political asylum. Brigadier General Prosper Avril, a Haitian power broker who had close ties to Duvalier, declared himself the new President of Haiti...
Lubin said Jean-Claude Paul, commander of the 700-man Dessalines Barracks, was named commander-in-chief of the army, but Avril did not mention Paul. Dessalines is said to be the most feared unit in the 7000-man Haitian army...
...vociferously since his acquittal in 1983, the liberal judge has professed innocence and insisted that race and politics were the prime motivations of his accusers. Because of his sentencing decisions, the Carter appointee has sometimes been labeled a "defendant's judge." In the early 1980s he issued rulings favoring Haitian refugees seeking to remain...
...hard-boiled genre, the most ironic triumph is Charles Willeford's The Way We Die Now (Random House; 245 pages; $15.95), a snake-mean slice of South Florida lowlife that might finally have brought overdue recognition if its author had not died in March of this year. Haitian illegal immigrants and Cuban Marielitos are among the supporting victims and sleaze artists in a multiplot story featuring a ruthless but effective cop whose beat is long- unsolved murders. A.E. Maxwell's equally colorful Just Enough Light to Kill (Doubleday; 254 pages; $16.95) blends Soviet high-tech espionage with striking tableaux...