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- <text id=90TT1905>
- <title>
- July 23, 1990: World Notes:Haiti
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 23, 1990 The Palestinians
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 54
- World Notes
- HAITI
- Unwelcome Returns
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> He is feared and reviled as the former Minister of the
- Interior and Defense under the exiled dictator Jean-Claude
- ("Baby Doc") Duvalier and the onetime head of the dreaded
- Tontons Macoutes, but when 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.
- </p>
- <p> A one-day general strike called by the Unity Assembly on
- Wednesday to protest their return brought the country to a
- standstill. But it remained unclear whether President Ertha
- Pascal-Trouillot has the will or the power to act against the
- two, who presumably hope to derail the elections set for Nov.
- 4. Meanwhile, an alarming rumor was circulating that other
- Duvalierists were coming back to be on hand for the return of
- Baby Doc himself.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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