Word: haitianization
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...dawn cacophony of his capital's unbelievably numerous roosters, and hops on an exercise machine. After a rubdown, he breakfasts in bathrobed comfort on fruit and cafe au lait. Then, in a suite filled with alabaster busts, stuffed pink cranes, Empire clocks and pictures of himself and other Haitian heroes, the President reads reports and mail, takes a thoughtful second look at work saved over from the night before. At 7:30 he showers and dresses, usually in grey gabardine or white linen, a silk tie with a gold clasp, grey suede shoes. Soon he is sitting...
Enter the Marines. By 1912, rebellions had ousted eleven of 18 Haitian Presidents. Then, in the space of 43 months, one President was blown up in his palace, another was poisoned, three more deposed. The U.S., fearing the European powers might try to intervene, decided to act first...
...Hugh was the first Jamaican chief executive to touch what is now Haitian soil since Acting Governor Sir Henry Morgan, the respectably retired pirate, was shipwrecked on French Hispaniola 279 years ago. In Sir Hugh's honor, the Foreign Minister put on an elegant ball, and the tall, slim governor gamely accommodated his swooping waltz style to the intricacies of the Haitian meringue...
President Paul Magloire, Haiti's burly, beaming Chief of State, last week welcomed some new foreign friends to his capital and sent some old domestic enemies on their travels. In Port-au-Prince one morning, he draped the Haitian Order of Honor and Merit around the neck of Edward G. Miller Jr., chief of the U.S. State Department's Latin American affairs section under the Truman Administration. At noon the same day he welcomed to Haiti Sir Hugh Foot, K.C.V.O., Governor of Jamaica, and Lady Foot...
Crafty Emperor. The brave show recalled a brave history. In the decade before the real battle, 400,000 Haitian slaves had risen against their 40,000 French masters and beaten them in fighting so bloody that the population dropped by 150,000. The first rebel leader, an ex-slave himself, was Toussaint Louverture. To regain the colony, rich in sugar and indigo, Napoleon sent 70 ships and 40,000 men against Toussaint, and captured him. Toussaint died in prison in France. It fell to a successor, General Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the crafty "Tiger," to destroy the French...