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- <text id=90TT2873>
- <title>
- Oct. 29, 1990: Talk About A Teflon Candidate. . .
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Oct. 29, 1990 Can America Still Compete?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 35
- Talk About a Teflon Candidate...</hdr>
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- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Daniel S. Levy
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- <p> Roger Lafontant, former chief of Baby Doc Duvalier's brutal
- Tonton Macoutes, has added a strange new chapter to Haiti's
- political scene by running for President in the Dec. 16
- elections. He enters the race with an unusual handicap: a
- warrant for his arrest was issued in July for crimes he
- allegedly committed with the Macoutes. Haiti's attorney general
- is reminding citizens that anyone who shelters the strongman
- is subject to prosecution. With typical swagger, Lafontant
- opposes the presence of outside observers at the elections, and
- officials fear his campaign will serve as a beachhead for the
- return of other Duvalierists. When Lafontant appeared in public
- to announce his candidacy, he was protected by heavily armed
- soldiers. He has been touring the provinces, stumping and
- handing out cash to voters.
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- </body>
- </article>
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