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- WORLD, Page 43World NotesHAITICampaign of Violence
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- The lights went out just after 7 p.m. Then a granade
- exploded and gunfire was heard. With that, a street corner in
- Petionville, seven miles outside the capital of Port-au-Prince,
- was turned into a horror scene of shattered bodies and mangled
- limbs. Seven people were killed and 54 wounded.
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- The carnage occurred at a rally last week for the Rev.
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the popular priest who is the front
- runner in this Sunday's presidential elections and a survivor
- of at least three assassination attempts. Father Aristide
- blamed the violence on the Tontons Macoutes, the notorious
- secret police force loyal to the deposed Duvalier dictatorship.
- Together with the army, the Macoutes had forced cancellation
- of the 1987 elections by massacring 34 voters. But this time
- Haitians seemed determined to vote, no matter what calamities
- occurred on the campaign trail. Said a caller to Radio
- Haiti-Inter: "We're at the last station of the cross on the
- Calvary to our elections, and by God, we'll make it."
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