Evening star

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1 strike will go on when the

schools reopen Monday. They

were closed a month early for

the Christmas vacation.

’•The strikers now are de

manding repeal of a decree

making parents responsible for

classroom absenteeism and re

quiring students to get police

that they are not

Communists.

Noise bombs at three schools

this week emphasised the de

'fflands.

Slayer Executed

A firing squad executed a

man in a graveyard Wednes

day night who had been con

victed of killing a government

supporter. The shots rang out

1 as the killer's victim was being

buried on the other side of the I

cemetery.

Capital punishment is rare

in Haiti and the timing and

t place of the execution was con

sidered a grim reminder by the

regime. It imposed martial law

last November and put a 10:30

p.m. to 4 am. curfew in effect

last Monday.

Bishop in New York

Exiled Bishop Augustin. 50-

year-old native of Haiti, ar

rived at New York's Idlewild

Airport Thursday night and

sgld he still did not know the

reasons for his deportation. He

said he had not been mistreat

ed by the police, who held him

for 14 hours before putting

him on a plane.

The bishop was met by four

other priests who were ordered

deported the same day, and by

former President Paul Mag

loire of Haiti, who was over

thrown in 1958.

Mr. Magloire told reporters

President Duvalier was carry

ing out a program "of direct

persecution of church leaders.’’

Bishop Augustin said Haitian

officials gave him a passport

with visas to Argentina and

Venezuela without consulting

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1961). Washington, D.C., 1961-01-13. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1961-01-13/ed-1/?sp=8

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1961-01-13.