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Haiti's President Little Concerned About Communist Subversion
. By HENRY RAYMONT
United Preii International
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti IUPD
Haiti's President Francois Du
valier is little concerned with
Communist subversion as a
threat to his strong-armed re
gime, even though Cuba is
only 50 miles away across the
sparkling Caribbean waters.
While other Caribbean and
Central American republics
view Fidel Castro's regime
with growing alarm, the grim
faced, 55 - year old former
country doctor has two good
reasons to be calm.
First, as long as Duvalier
maintains his present critical
attitude toward the United
States, Castro is likely to re
gard Haiti with tolerance
rather than with enmity.
Communists Have Thoughts
Second, the poverty-stricken
French-speaking Negro re
public is so beset by problems
that even Communists, who
thrive on exploiting misery
for their political ends, seem
to have had second thoughts
about Haiti.
wuere uuvaiier s govern
ment is casting a weary eye
is on the neighboring Domin
ican Republic whose new
president; Dr. Juan Bosch, is
a declared foe of dictators.
Louis Chauvet, Duvalier's
lough-mmded, articulate in
terior secretary, told this
correspondent last week he
would be closely watching the
activities of recently arrived
exiled Haitian political lead
ers in the Dominican Repub-
J1C.
"We would not be surpris
ed, he declared, "if Bosch
decided to launch a crusade
simultaneously against Cuba
and Haiti."
Educated in Belgium
Chauvet, who was educat
ed in Belgium to be an agron
omist, intimated that an agree
ment existed between the Do
minican president and the
United States.
"As soon as Bosch has his
country's economic situation
under control he will allow
thousands of Cubans now in
the U. S. armed forces to
regroup in the Dominican Re
public and begin a local war
against Castro," he added.
A tall, muscular, square-
Jawed man, Chauvet Is one
of the leaders of the civil
militia Duvalier relies on to
quash any attempt against
the regime.
Although Radio Havana
continues its daily one -hour
long broadcasts in Creole to
Haiti, Chauvet viewed the
Dominican Republic and Ven
ezuela as the center of anti
Duvalier plotting.
Pats Revolver
Confidently patting a .38
revolver he always carries in
his belt, Chauvet said:
"If we are attacked I as
sure you we shall know how
to defend ourselves, no matter
from where the attack may
come."
But behind this facade of
confidence are persistent rum
blings of underground activi
ties many observers predict
will erupt before May 22, the
date -when Duvalier cele
brates the second anniversary
of his "reelection."
Foreign observers, U. S.
F .1 10
doing
Contracts Signed For Development
Ashland - Contracts for the
principal design, develop
ment, construction and financ
ing of the retirement develop
ment around the Oak Knoll
Golf Course near Ashland
have been signed by the Oak
Knoll Land corporation with
M. C. Liningcr and Sons, Ed
son and Pappas, Armin Rich
ter and Associates, Building
Materials. Inc., and Jackson
County Federal Savings and
Loan association.
Construction of the first
units will be by Armin Rich
ter and Associates, in associa
tion with Building Materials,
Inc.
Both firms are headquar
tered in Med ford.
Construction of streets and
all utilities, as well as devel
opment of outdoor recreation
areas on the property, will be
done by M. C. Lininger and homes and garden apartment , communiiy will be limited to
Sons of Medford and Ashland.
Provide Some Financing
Jackson County Federal is
providing part of the financ
ing for the over-all develop
ment and will make financing
available for buyers of homes
in the project.
Improvements on the golf
course, owned by the city of
Ashland but leased by the
corporation for 33 years, be
gan early this month. Survey
ing for streets and utility
lines in the development itself
is under way. The corporation
plans to have two model
homes open no later than June
1, William Duwkins, president
of the firm, said.
Edson and Pappas, Medford
architects, will have archi
tectural control of the project
and are designing the first 300
units. The local firm will
work closely with Rick Engi
neering, San Diego land plan
ners and engineers.
Residence - in the planned
Veterinarians Named
To Committee Posfs
Three Medford area veter
inarians have been appointed
to 1983 committee posts in
the Oregon Veterinary Medi
cal association, according to
Dr. R. E. Kuenig, Portland,
president.
They include Dr, D. P. Phil
ips, membership and. pro
gram; Dr. R. F. Wilcox, pro
gram and public relations,
both of Medford; Dr, J. E.
Perry, Eagle Point, public
health.
adults, with the major appeal
directed to retired and semi
retired people who enjoy ac
tive, outdoor life, Dawkins
said. In addition to the golf
course and a new club facil
ity, various recreation and
service facilities will be de
veloped for residents.
The golf course will remain
open to the public, but other
facilities will be for the use
of residents and under the
control of a home owners as
sociation. In addition to Dawkins, di
rectors of the development
corporation are E. H. Sins
master of Ashland, Donald
Hcrricd, Manville Heisel, John
Reid and Armin Richter o
Medford, and William Zeiser
of Rogue River.
DOING DAY'S WORK Native women in the poverty
striken French-speaking Negro republic of Haiti go about
a day's work in squalid marketplace at Port-au-
Prince, Haiti. (UP1)
officials included, believe the
anti-Duvalier underground is
becoming increasingly better
organized and effective. There
also is a possibility of revolt
by Haiti's 5,000-man army, al
though it is far inferior in
numbers and in weapons to
Duvalier's civil militia.
Underground Organisations
A dozen or more under
ground organizations are said
to be operating in Haiti, a
desperately poor, overpopu
lated, mostly illiterate coun
try which shares the island
of Hispaniola with the Do
minican Republic. '
This smelly, crowded capi
tal city is seething with ru
more of conspiracy against
Duvalier tyranny.
Most of the anti-government
ferment has come from stu
dent groups and from the
small urban middle class. It
is doubtful that .Duvalier
needs to worry about the apa
thetic peasantry which'; con
tinues to call him affection
ately "Papa Doc.'.'
The wealthier landowners
and merchants who have prof
ited from the regime are not
inclined to lose its favor by
heeding calls to join the oppo
sition. Students Are Killed
When four students were
killed and scores arrested dur
ing an anti-government dem
onstration last month, an ap
peal went out to upper class
families to protest the inci
dent by not attending . the
carnival festivities at the fash
ionable clubs of Petion Vile,
a residential section of the
Haitian capital, Port Au
Prince.
One student leader com
mented bitterly: "They turn
ed over our pamphlets to the
police and went dancing all
the same even though some
had friends and relatives in
prison."
The indifference shown to
the students has given an un
expected boost to the more
radical underground move
ments. One of the most active
groups is the Peoples Nation
al party which publishes the
clandestine newspaper, Haiti
Tomorrow. It alternates its
attacks against "U. S. im
perialism" and "the fascist
regime of Duvalier."
Revolutionary Party
The Haitian Revolutionary
party, made up mainly of stu
dents, is said to have Commu
nist sympathizers in its lead
ership.
The Popular Socialist par
ty put out another clandes
tine journal, "Democratic Ac
tion," patterned after Vene
zuelan President Romulo Bet
ancourt's party, and a news
paper for peasants.
U. S. experts believe that
the influence of French Com
munists and Moscow on the
Haitian political scene far ex
ceeds that of Castro.
In a report to Congress on
Communist subversion in Hai
ti, U. S. Ambassador Ray
mond L. Thurston discounts
reports that Cuba was train
ing French-speaking Africans
to penetrate the island repub
lic. One reason for his skepti
cism was that 90 per cent of
the Haitian people who would
be the principal target of such
scheme, speak Creole and
not French.
Thurston also rejected the
notion that Castro was mount
ing an invasion against Haiti.
He said the Cuban leader
would not dare for. fear of
direct U. S. retaliation.
The envoy, a sophisticated
career diplomat with years of
service in Moscow, Paris and
Athens, did not conceal his
belief that the political situa
tion was dangerous.
But he said what Haiti most
needed was "an effective and
organized program of eco
nomic and social develop
ment."
The United States last Oc
tober virtually halted all its
economic aid programs on the
grounds that they were not
being administered efficiently.
PRESENTS PAPER
Ashland-Dr. James Docrter,
chairman of the Southern Ore
gon college art department,
presented a research paper en
titled "The Influence of Col
lege Painting Instructors upon
their Students' Work," at the
National Art Education asso
ciation national convention
recently in Kansas City, Mo
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