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...turned Antigua into a jet-age Cannes of the Caribbean, complete with 33 hotels drawing 65,000 tourists annually, a casino, an oil refinery and such illustrious sojourners as Dean Acheson, Andre Kostelanetz and Aristotle Onassis. His reward was to hear 70,000 Antiguans sing happy calypsos praising "Papa Bird...
...Election. In the election, Walter's Progressive Labor Movement picked up 14 seats in Parliament, leaving only three for Bird's Antigua Labor Party. In the race in St. Johns, Papa even lost his own private perch to Walter's younger brother...
Last week 2,391,916 residents of Haiti voted out to "Papa Doc" Duvalier's proposal that he be succeeded by his hulking son, Jean-Claude, 19. If anybody voted non, the Port-au-Prince papers did not mention...
...decided to marry Max Dominique, the tall (6ft. 6-in.), handsome presidential officer who stood behind her father on ceremonial occasions. Papa Doc was enraged; he had wanted a lighter-skinned son-in-law, and Max was very black. But Dédé won. Max was ordered to divorce his wife, who was paid a rumored $30,000 before she and her two children were shipped off to Jamaica...
...while Max was commanding Port-au-Prince's military district, a letter turned up on Papa Doc's desk accusing him and 19 other officers of plotting against the government. The other 19 were executed, but Dédé man aged to coax her father into sparing her husband. She and Max were allowed to go into exile, and Max be came Haiti's Ambassador to Spain. Eighteen months later, Dédé returned to Port-au-Prince and deftly arranged the removal of her enemies from her father's palace staff. When...