Evening star., 1963-04-30
A Break for u. S. in Haiti

Haitian Dictator Francois
Duvalier may have played right
into the hands of both the
United States and his own do
mestic opposition.
For the past year the United
States embassy in the Haitian
capital of Port au Prince has
done everything but hire soap
box orators on the main street
to show the United States de-
sire that Mr.. Duvalier be
ousted.
! Now. by antagonizing the Do
minican Republic, the Haitian
dictator has provided the per-
feet opening for mobilizing the
whole hemisphere against him
and bolstering the opportunity
for domestic rebellion.
During the past two weeks
terror has been mounting in
Haiti. Only last week Mr.
Duvalier fired so top officers
who he claimed were conspirins
against him in the army. And
several days ago terrorists
assassinated the three body
guards Of his children in broad
daylight In Port au Prince.
The President responded by
allegedly having his special
army Of hoodlums, the motor
ious Ton Ton Macoute, mas
sacre the family Of the man
he believed behind the plot
against him.
Experienced observers in Haiti
feel all this violence was head
ing for a grand climax in the
week Of May 1922.
May Is is the date when
Mr.. Duvalier's constitutional
term Of office ends; May % is
the date he has set for a
festive celebration Of his aim to
perpetuate himself as illegal
President for six years.
But the latest incidents in
Haiti are likely to speed the
time schedule Of revolt.
U. S. Opposition Mounts
United States opposition to
the Duvalier government has
been increasing steadily since
the Haitian President an
nounced a year ago that he
was rewriting the constitution
and installing himself in Of
flee for another term. This
violated the democratic tenets
OF the Alliance Of Progress and
coincided with the growing
conviction here that the Haitian
dictator could not be trusted
with United States aid funds.
Accordingly $13 million In
United States yearly aid ear
marked for budget support,
roads and hydro-electric prof.
ects have been whitfield down
to almost zero. The 80-man
aid mission has been reduced TO
eight, two Of whom are physi-
clans in a 81 million anti
malaria program operating un-
der the Pan American Health
Organization.
And last night the State De-
partment disclosed the with
drawal OF the United States
Naval Training Mission. at the
request OF the Haitian govern
ment.
The State Department said
Mr.. Duvalier's reduest-ior
practical purposes 1t is viewed
more as an order-for removal
OF the 30-man unit was received
here Saturday morning. II
added that the United States
Government "regretfully is pro-
ceeding with the withdrawal. /"
The Duvalier request came
before the current flareup In
which the Dominicans have
threatened military action be-
cause OF the invasion OF their
Embassy at Port au Prince.
The only major United
States aid project remaining
is s2.8 million for building a
modern Jet airport. Even that
money is tightly controlled
through iron-clad contracts
with trustworthy construction
firms.
President Duvalier has beer
making thinly veiled attacks on
the United States. He has relied
heavily on racism in portraying
white" North American per-
secution OF the one "black"
republic in the hemisphere.
Perhaps more dangerous, he
has maintained an illicit liaison
with the Haitian Communists
at home and made public over
lures TO Czechoslovakia and
other Communists abroad.
In the meantime he has been
tearing apart all the traditional
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