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...former political science professor who fled Haiti during the Duvalier dictatorship and spent 23 years in exile in France and Venezuela. A preliminary tally indicated that Manigat won slightly more than 50% of the vote. Brigadier General Henri Namphy, head of the country's three-man military junta, initially favored another candidate, but Manigat apparently won the last-minute support of the junta's Brigadier General Williams Regala and another top military leader. "Manigat could only get to where he has got through an obscure, rigged situation," says a Haitian social scientist. "He would like only to be President...
...best, the election will simply be called off. At worst, Haitians predict a bloodbath of the sort that brought last November's presidential contest to a halt just three hours into the balloting. Many Haitians are now forecasting that if Brigadier General Henri Namphy, head of the ruling junta, feels he cannot impose his choice of a President on the rest of the army, he will postpone or cancel the voting. From Port-au-Prince to Washington, virtually everybody seems to discount the possibility of a fair contest. Says a politician who ran for the Senate two months...
...Namphy. The four leading presidential candidates supported calls for general strikes last week, but their goals initially differed. Some aimed to dissolve the government, while others demanded reinstatement of a nine-member independent electoral council disbanded by Namphy. By week's end all four agreed to call on the junta to resign. Meanwhile, many Haitians worried about the adverse financial consequences of a protracted strike. The result: two days of spotty protests that were in stark contrast to last June's successful strikes, which foiled Namphy's attempt to wrest control of the country's voting process from the electoral...
...failure of the general strike seemed to embolden the army-dominated government. Since the election cancellation, the junta has paraded a stream of Duvalierists before television cameras to denounce the electoral council and American interference. More to the point, the government-owned TV station has repeatedly flashed a message across the screen: I WILL ONLY SURRENDER THIS TOWN WHEN IT IS REDUCED TO ASHES, AND WHEN IT IS REDUCED TO ASHES, I WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT. The quote is well known, the pledge of an early 19th century Haitian revolutionary leader to fight French colonists. But most Haitians understood...
...name is seen in print. While Washington has called on Namphy to provide a "free, fair and secure electoral process," a U.S. official concedes, "We frankly don't maintain much hope that they will do the right thing." In Haiti, a consensus is rapidly building: the Namphy junta must...