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Duvalier's overture to the U.S. fell on deaf ears. The State Department recalled Ambassador Raymond L. Thurston for "consultation" on U.S. policy in Haiti. How far the U.S. would go was unclear. The question is: After Duvalier, what? The Haitians in exile are poorly organized and mostly led by men whose past records would earn them a small hello. Inside Haiti, Duvalier's strongest enemy is little better than "Papa Doc" himself. He is Clement Barbot, 49, a longtime Duvalier crony and killer, who bossed the dread Tonton Macoute goon squads until Duvalier turned...
...Duvalier persisted into his unconstitutional second term, Venezuela and Costa Rica broke diplomatic relations. The U.S., in an odd neither-this-nor-that diplomatic maneuver, "suspended contacts" with Haiti. Ambassador Raymond L. Thurston was ordered to remain in Port-au-Prince, but to have absolutely no conversation with Duvalier's government. Along with about 200 other U.S. dependents, Ambassador Thurston's wife was sent home. Duvalier was still in power, but his security remained precarious. Ready to move in if things got out of hand, a U.S. task force, headed by the helicopter carrier Boxer with a reinforced...
...Marine sergeant was hauled into a police station for 2½ hours of questioning; Robert Hill, embassy first secretary, was stopped and searched at gunpoint by Duvalier's Tonton Macoute, a kind of disorderly people's thuggery. Three times during the week, U.S. Ambassador Raymond L. Thurston protested to the Haitian government. Just over the horizon stood a U.S. Navy task force, and marines aboard the aircraft carrier Boxer were prepared to land, if necessary, to save the lives of 1,000 U.S. citizens in Haiti. The situation, said Washington, is "delicate and dark...
Others on the disk, however, sound too much, like politicians trying too hard to be funny. Sen. Barry Goldwater. Sen. Kenneth Keating, and Sen. Thurston B. Morton struggle valiantly to achieve the gentle touch, without much success...
Gardner's appeal for continued support of the United Nations despite the Special Fund project in Cuba was echoed by Senator Thurston B. Morton (R-Ky.). Following Gardner's speech, Morton told the mock General Assembly that if the United States cut contributions because of dissatisfaction with the Cuba project, it would undermine its demand that other nations, especially the Soviet Union, must contribute to projects that they do not like...