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Next day the Haitian military, which had tried to keep a low profile, began cracking down in the capital. Lieut. General Henri Namphy, the council president and commander of the armed forces who succeeded Duvalier, announced that two more council members, Colonel Max Valles and Alix Cineas, and the government's military adviser, Colonel Prosper Avris, had stepped down. All three men were closely associated with the Duvalier dictatorship, and their appointment had stirred considerable bitterness...
Disgusted by official inertia and determined to see everyone associated with Duvalier brought to justice, Haitians took matters into their own hands. Hundreds of students joined together to march on the National Palace late last week. Even after the new government was announced, angry crowds confronted military patrols. One sergeant was reportedly dragged from his automobile on Friday and killed. Said Gesner Armand, director of an art museum in the Haitian capital: "The people made the revolution. Now they have immediate needs that this government can't satisfy. They want work, and the government has no jobs to give them...
...English helped too. Posters were meant to be read by the crowds, as well as seen by foreign cameras. The Filipinos easily made their own case on American talk shows. By contrast, the fall of "Baby Doc" Duvalier in Haiti made less vivid TV. Cameras could show the undernourished Haitian country people, happy but still fearful, but much of the expression of their emotions got lost in translation. The problem was once wryly summed up in a book title by Edward Behr, who had covered the Congo: Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English...
...juicy French farce starring Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier took several new turns last week. For starters, the former Haitian dictator brought a lawsuit against his French hosts. He charged that the government had mounted "multiple attacks on the personal liberties" of himself, his elegant wife Michele and the rest of his family. He insisted that the French have held them in "solitary confinement" at the exclusive Hotel de l'Abbaye in the Alpine village of Talloires...
Although the former Haitian honcho's wealth is apparently not as great, Duvalier and his entourage don't exactly have to travel on the budget plan, either. While the Mitterand government decides what to do with him, Duvalier and his family are currently holed up in a posh Parisian hotel that wants them out. "They're bad for business," said the manager...