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President Ertha Pascal-Trouillot was at home with her family when an army tank driver knocked on her door at 10 p.m. As gunfire echoed in the distance, he told her there was trouble and that she would be safer at the presidential palace, three miles away in Port-au-Prince, the capital. On the way, the driver stopped to pick up a second passenger, a heavyset, balding man whom Pascal-Trouillot could not identify in the dark. Only after arriving at the palace did the President learn that her companion was Dr. Roger Lafontant, former head of the Tontons...
Lafontant forced Pascal-Trouillot to resign and named himself provisional President. He told reporters that his putsch had the full backing of the military, blustering that President-elect Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the radical priest chosen by an overwhelming majority last month and scheduled to take office Feb. 7, was a "nobody...
...turned out to be a general without an army. In an unprecedented gesture of support for democracy, the Haitian military, led by army Chief of Staff General Herard Abraham, declared its allegiance to the government. Less than 12 hours after the coup began, soldiers stormed the palace, freed Pascal-Trouillot and dragged off Lafontant and 15 of his henchmen in handcuffs...
...promise of democracy was deferred again in Haiti two weeks ago as the Electoral Council announced that elections scheduled for Nov. 4 would be postponed until perhaps December because of a lack of funds. The news threatened to unravel the caretaker administration of President Ertha Pascal Trouillot, whose six-month-old transition government has already been tarnished by charges of corruption and incompetence. "She cannot make good on her pledge to hold genuine elections, so her administration has lost its reason to exist," observed Gerard Pierre-Charles, a left-wing political analyst. "We are sliding inexorably toward the temptation...
...more so than the content of Holzer's thoughts. Starting with Goethe, Pascal and Chamfort, the list of aphorists to whom she is inferior would be exceedingly long, but she does try. Not for nothing does she call her utterances "truisms." Their lack of wit is almost disarming. They have an earnest hortatory confidence that makes other kinds of word art -- Ben Vautier's in France in the '60s, for instance -- look semidetached. Holzer's trouble is that although she wants to use language alone as the stuff of visual art -- a dubious enterprise anyway -- she has no language...