Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reshuffled part of his military leadership, arrested dozens of army officers, and, in a grisly ceremony at Port-au-Prince's Fort Dimanche, personally presided over the execution of 19 of his prisoners...
...pudgy medicine man has steadily tightened his reign of terror. And ever since last April, when two bombs rocked downtown Port-au-Prince during a na tional party celebrating his 60th birthday and his tenth year in power, Papa Doc has been exercising his authority with a vengeance. In four brutal months...
...Family Affair. Duvalier has even clamped down on his own family. Army Colonel Max Dominique, military commander of Port-au-Prince and the hus band of Duvalier's 26-year-old daughter, was sent packing off to Madrid as Haiti's Ambassador to Spain. As Dominique's plane taxied down the strip, Duvalier's private Gestapo or Tonton Macoutes (Creole for bogeymen), jumped Dominique's two bodyguards and chauffeur, then hustled the three men off to jail. Last month Duvalier dismissed Dominique from the army "for the good of the service," and ordered...
Haiti's troubles can only get worse. Graft and corruption have sucked the economy dry, the government is two years behind in some of its bills, and there are strong fears in Port-au-Prince that the International Monetary Fund, which has been loaning Duvalier as much as $4,000,000 a year, may cut off his credit. Last week the only Haitians without a complaint were the voodoo priests, who have been doing a thriving business casting spells and consulting the spirits for nervous clients. Temple altars in Port-au-Prince were bright with new candles, Christmas lights...
...Guards harassed an Italian trade official at a street "trial" after the port of Genoa had refused to allow a Chi nese freighter to unload until it lowered political banners extolling Mao. - Thousands of Maoists brawled among themselves, ignoring the theme of the rally for which they had gathered-"to end demonstrations and clashes...