Though his formal title is President for Life, Haiti's Dictator Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier has always acted as if he expected to be President in Perpetuity. His 1964 constitution made no provision for a successor. In fact, Papa Doc found the whole subject so offensive that he had his wife's brother-in-law, Lucien Daumec, executed in 1964 for showing too much interest in the job. Three years later he condemned his son-in-law, Max Dominique, to death for plotting, but reprieved him and instead executed 19 of Dominique's fellow army officers.
Now Papa Doc has apparently had intimations of mortality. In...
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