Evening star

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you in Haiti. Unique in the

Caribbean and all the world.”

This eyebrow-raising mes

sage is stamped on the back

of the tourist cards given to

new arrivals here. Happy Just

doesn’t seem the right word

to describe conditions on this

island, although “unique”

pretty well fills the bill.

For one thing, there are no

tourists here any more. For

three years under President

Francois Duvalier, “Le Paci

ficateur,” the tourist business

has dwindled from millions of

dollars a year to the modest

expenditures of a bare score

of newsmen here only because

of the crisis.

Censors in Control

The customs inspectors wear

steel helmets, charge overtime

of tardy travelers at the air

port and confiscate newspa

pers from luggage under Haiti’s

stifling censorship. No one

'bothers with the cable or tele

phone for international mes

sages because the censors are

poised with the blue pencil in

the first case and at the cut

off switch in the second.

Newsmen send out stories

like this one by other means.

Incoming cables, if the con-

Soviet Spy Gets Death

And Briton 8 Years

r MOSCOW, May 11 (API.—A

Soviet military tribunal today

sentenced former Soviet offl

j dal Oleg Penkovsky to death

for espionage His British co-

defendant, Greville Wynne, got

an eight-year prison term.

The two men were convicted

by a Soviet military court after

a five-day trial. The verdict

and sentence were read out ini'

the final court session by the 1

court president, Lt. Gen. Vik-, 1

tor Borisoglebsky. 1

Mr. Wynne’s sentence was

broken down to consist of three,

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1963). Washington, D.C., 1963-05-11. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1963-05-11/ed-1/?sp=1

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1963-05-11.