Word: oases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Duvalier's popularity constitutes a serious obstacle to American and OAS attempts to remove him from office. His overthrow would make him appear as a martyr in the fight against white imperialism, and his popularity among the 90 per cent Negro population would increase. Martyring Duvalier would at once heighten...
The Organization of American States had sent investigating teams twice to Haiti, yet many nations were loath to impose sanctions. Intervention is a nasty word in Latin America, and memories of the Marine occupation of Haiti from 1915-34 are still fresh. In Washington Senator J. William Fulbright, chairman of...
The scene at Miami International Air port was sadly familiar. A Pan American DC-6B rolled to a halt, and TV cameras panned in as 115 refugees filed from the plane. But these passengers were from Franç Duvalier's Haiti - not Castro's Cuba-and they were...
At the talk, the OAS in Washington hurriedly flew a five-nation investigating team to the island. But in their one brief meeting with Haiti's dictator, Duvalier insisted on jabbering in Creole; the OAS team scarcely understood his words. Only under pressure did he agree to remove his...
Over the Horizon. Through it all, the U.S., which has long since cut off all aid to Haiti to show its displeasure, sought to maintain a hands-off attitude and refused even to participate in the OAS fact-finding mission. But the U.S. finds it harder and harder to ignore...