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Until the demands are met, the Duvalier regime has fashioned its own means of gathering pelf, at an estimated rate of $6,000,000 a year. Last year his private army of thugs called the Tonton Macoute (Creole for "bogeyman") circulated among Haiti's foreign and domestic businessmen soliciting "contributions" of up to $40,000 for a fancy housing project called Duvalierville. Some who refused to ante up were brutally beaten. The situation got so far out of hand that the diplomats of the U.S., Britain, France, Canada, Italy and Germany lodged strong protests with Duvalier's foreign...