Word: haitien
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential palace and two more on the capital's Bowen Field. Only one of the four exploded. Banking to the north, the plane then headed to a clandestine base located somewhere outside Haiti, apparently loaded up with more bombs, and proceeded on to a small airstrip near Cap Haitien. There one and possibly two other larger planes had just landed with 20 well-armed men, probably trainees from secret camps in the Bahamas. Thus last week, for the eighth time in ten years, began another attempt by Haitian exiles to topple the brutal and corrupt government of Haitian Dictator...
...tiny tropical police state, official details of the raid-such as it was-were soon clouded in confusion, contradiction and half-truths. But one thing was certain: the invaders, in their clumsy way, meant business. Before word of the bombing reached the north, the commander of the Cap Haitien garrison drove out to the airport to investigate the landings and ran into a hail of bullets; he was seriously wounded and two aides with him were killed...
Meeting force with force, Duvalier rushed 200 troops into the north, blocked the main road to Cap Haitien, surrounded the airport and personally directed every operation and news release from his corner office in the palace. "We must bomb the enemy systematically," he instructed his commander by phone. Later, Duvalier rang up Washington, where the Haitian ambassador, Arthur Bonhomme, was holding a press conference, and instructed the diplomat to inform the assembled reporters that Papa's troops were "mopping up right...
...exist in Haiti, nor has it ever been a part of Haitian history. Since the early 19th century--when Henri Christophe, the country's first black ruler, drove 20,000 slaves to their deaths in the construction of his massive fortress, the Citadel, high in the mountains over Cap Haitien--the government has existed for its own benefit. It simply does not do things for the people. It does not build highways or schools or hospitals; it does not try to improve agricultural methods or encourage industry; it does not give care to the young or the aged. Projects undertaken...