Word: haitians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raised sugar cane-thus drawing the covetous attention of France, which in 1665 took over the western end of the island. In 1791 the slaves rose up and began the 13-year slaughter of whites and mulattoes that brought Toussaint L'Ouverture to power and established a Haitian tradition of brutal tyranny. The Dominicans got their independence from the Spanish...
There are accusations (and indications) that a Haitian Revolutionary Force may be training in Cuba. Whether this is so or not, those who line up on the side of change in Haiti will have five million good reasons to feel confident. Those who oppose it by upholding Duvalier in the name of progress have misread the lessons of Cuba. Duvalier is every bit as good a friend as Fulgencio Batista. And he will leave us with enemies as resentful and recalcitrant as Fidel Castro...
...reached even to the U.S. in the famed 1956 kidnap-murder of Columbia University Lecturer Jesus de Galindez, a bitter Trujillo critic and onetime tutor of the dictator's children. The peak of his terror was reached one October night in 1937, when Trujillo issued instructions to eliminate Haitian squatters along the northwest border. Working nonstop for 36 hours, Trujillo's highly efficient army butchered a reported 15,000 men, women and children...
...lobby of the International House where she lived, or at the customary candlelit Sunday night suppers. Says a pianist friend of the Juilliard days: "It never entered my mind that Leontyne would not make it." But Leontyne herself was far less sure. She fell in love with a Haitian ("He was no musician." says Leontyne now, "but he sure was an artist"), and when the episode ended abruptly, she began threatening suicide. One night at a Riverside Drive party during which she had been dancing in her stocking feet, she was suddenly overcome by melancholy and started out toward...
Before dawn one day last week, police and armed civilian partisans of Haiti's President François Duvalier burst in on the country's top remaining Roman Catholic cleric. Haitian-born Bishop Remy Augustin was hustled off to jail so. fast he forgot his dental plates. Fourteen hours later he was expelled from the island. Two days later four more priests were expelled...