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- <text id=91TT0786>
- <title>
- Apr. 15, 1991: World Notes:Haiti
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 15, 1991 Saddam's Latest Victims
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 31
- World Notes
- HAITI
- A Shock to the System
- </hdr><body>
- <p> She won international praise for faithfully steering Haiti to
- its first free and honest elections. But last week former
- Supreme Court judge and interim President Ertha Pascal-Trouillot
- was arrested and charged with complicity in a foiled coup
- against her own 10-month-old government in January.
- </p>
- <p> The surprise arrest stemmed from a takeover attempt led by
- former Duvalierist strongman Dr. Roger Lafontant after the
- populist Roman Catholic priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide won the
- presidency in the Dec. 16 vote. Pascal-Trouillot has said that
- she was kidnapped from her home and held hostage for 10 hours
- before loyalist troops stormed the National Palace and ended the
- siege. But Lafontant contends he is not guilty of trying to oust
- the government, because Trouillot willingly handed power over
- to him. Many Haitians believe that Trouillot and other members
- of her government stole millions from the national treasury
- during her administration, but no charges have been leveled to
- date.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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