Evening star

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Americans there if the rebel invasion endangers their lives.

A Defense Department official said the Caribbean fleet

units, include aircraft carriers and Marines. He said the

United States is keeping a close

watch on the situation.

The fear exists that a col

lapse of the dictatorship of

Francois Duvalier might result

in a bloodbath in Haiti where,

an official said, “There are

many scores to settle.”

Threats of Massacre

There were threats as re

cently as last May that a

wholesale massacre would ensue

if Dr. Duvalier thought his

government was endangered.

“The earth will bum from east

to west and from north to

south and rivers of blood will

flow,” one Duvalier official

said in a violent anti-American

speech during last spring’s

crisis.

At Haiti’s request, mean

while, the council of the Or

ganization of American States

was called into special session

this afternoon.

In a note to the OAS yes

terday, Haitian Foreign Min

ister Rene Chalmers charged

1 that the exile invasion has

taken place “with the aid and

Rights Lobbying Drive

Outlined by Wilkins

By MYRA MacPHERSON

Star Staff Writer

Plans for three days of “real

tough lobbying with Congress

men and Senators" were out

lined to some 300 leaders of

the National Association for the

Advancement of Colored People

today.

Roy Wilkins, executive sec

retary of the NAACP, told the

opening session of the legisla

tive strategy conference it was

important to “get across to them

that from where you live and

from what you see in your city

and State, that this is what

the people want.” The confer

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1963). Washington, D.C., 1963-08-06. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1963-08-06/ed-1/?sp=1

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1963-08-06.