Word: roumain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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False Promises. To avoid arrest, Talamas fled to the U.S. embassy. But a few hours later, on the advice of U.S. embassy officials who twice received Haitian government assurances that he would not be mistreated, he surrendered to the police. Next morning, Colonel Louis Roumain, the junta's foreign affairs chief, informed the inquiring embassy that during the night. Talamas assaulted an officer and in the "scuffle" suffered a "heart attack" and died. Accompanied by U.S. officials, three U.S. doctors examined the body, found it a mass of ugly bruises and welts, and the State Department issued the official...
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