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...capital, angry youths hurled rocks and pieces of iron at passing motorists. Observed Port-au-Prince Businessman Roger Savain: ''Any country that has such a legion of poor and unemployed is a volcano ready to erupt.'' The wave of unrest was also directed against the unpopular Colonel Williams Regala, the Interior Minister and a member of the ruling junta. Regala was blamed for a clash between demonstrators and security forces that occurred in April at the notorious Fort Dimanche Prison during a memorial service for thousands of Haitians who died there during the Duvalier dictatorship. At least seven people were...
Brigadier General James C. Hill reported that he yanked the leash on two powerful enemies of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide rumored to be plotting a coup. Hill said he summoned to his office Franck Romain, a former Port-au-Prince police chief and mayor and former army chief Williams Regala, to warn them to stop their reported schemes against Aristide's government. TIME Miami correspondent Tammerlin Drummond reports: "Many Haitians feel that these former military leaders are just lying low until the last U.S. troops leave to make their move. There have been unconfirmed rumors of plots around Mardi Gras...
Brigadier General James C. Hill reported that he yanked the leash on two powerful enemies of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide rumored to be plotting a coup. Hill said he summoned to his office Franck Romain, a former Port-au-Prince police chief and mayor and former army chief Williams Regala, to warn them to stop their reported schemes against Aristide's government. TIME Miami correspondent Tammerlin Drummond reports: "Many Haitians feel that these former military leaders are just lying low until the last U.S. troops leave to make their move. There have been unconfirmed rumors of plots around Mardi Gras...
...Roger Lafontant arrived in Port-au-Prince from exile in Santo Domingo last week, he was given a VIP reception despite orders from the government not to admit him. Lafontant's unwelcome return came only a few days after the arrival of another exiled Duvalier associate, Major General Williams Regala...
...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. He has no other agenda...