European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Stripes fighting voodoo with voodoo wherever president and mrs. Duvalier make an appearance heavily armed guards Are also present. A i a Uniti it a a v i. Voodoo Man Antoine advises Duvalier. Hie rooster crows at papa Doc 1 by Virginia Prewett Nana staff writer the terroristic Rule of Haiti a lifetime president Francois papa Doc Duvalier now faces its weirdest adversary. For an anti Duvalier Witch Doc Tor is challenging from new York City by radio the 10-year monopoly on voodoo that Duvalier has used to keep 85 percent of his people cowed by superstitious challenger is be Poule or or. Most importantly or. Rooster extends voodoo Protection Over the Many informants of the haitian coalition in Side Haiti. He has managed to infiltrate Duvalier s own Witch doctor corps tothe dictator s growing discomfort. For Many years Duvalier s Voo Doo priests or Hung ans in crude dirt floored shrines called hum Fos rooster who Speaks to haitians on the programs of the exile haitian coalition five times a . Rooster has penetrated the inner secrets of the Duvalier regime. He challenges Duvalier s voodoo priests to tests of magic strength and so far the have not prevailed. He even visits Haiti. Saturday october 21, 1967 have used Goat pig and Chicken sacrifices in bloody rites calling on voodoo gods to show Duvalier the faces of his Hung ans Call in dam Ballah who takes material form As a Bigsnake Baron Samedi the fearful god of death who wears a top hat and tails papa cede a gruesome cemetery god Erzulie who sometimes appear Sas a seductive woman Ngoun Seraille the god of steel and others who serve their creator the great master. Though most haitians Are nominally Catholic up to 85 per cent of them be Lieve in voodoo anthropologists doctors both cast spells and of Fer Protection. For example Baro Samedi lurks at every crossroad to do mischief. For a fee Witch doctors can Issue a kind of passport that protects the haitian wishing to pass the Cross Road. A Large part of Duvalier s terroristic old has been anchored in the allegiance of the voodoo priests the Only sector he consistently cuddles. When a group of haitian exiles rang ing in politics from the moderate left to the moderate right in mid-1965 formed the haitian coalition in new York their Only weapon against the terrors talking their country was a half hour broadcast to Haiti from 6 to 6 30 Days a week. Their most potent am munition proved to be inside news from Haiti which demonstrated to Duvalier that the coalition had sympathizers there. Mar. Rooster recruited in 1965, does not come to the new York studio to broadcast but is taped off stage. His real identity is a closely guarded secret. His first task was to win Speaks Creole the fractured French mixed with african that is Haiti s own language like an ignorant peasant try ing to talk proper French. He says heis an old ton ton Lacoute a Duvalier enforcer who defected because of Dis gust for Duvalier s cruelty to his peo ple. Or. Rooster won listeners rapidly and on popular demand from Haiti his broadcasts were increased to five times a week. Duvalier this Spring began frantically trying to Jam the program. This Spring also or. Rooster began to flex his Muscles with an announcement that he would visit Haiti. He said that on certain Date in March he would appear about 15 Miles South of port a Prince in a famous Witch doctor area. In Voo Doo lore such materialization normally take place at Crossroads. Duvalier sent a detachment of ton Tonga routes to lie in wait. During an eerie 24 hours they caught nothing but in Nocent peasants duly equipped with passports from accredited Witch Doc tors. Or. Rooster subsequently went on Theair to taunt the ton ton Machutes. I was there All right he said but you could t see me. Did t you feel a Little funny when that Cloud went Over the Moon that was me passing mar. Rooster makes life miserable for Duvalier s Kingpins. When Cabinet minister Clovis Desinor s brother died in an Auto crash or. Rooster said Des inor had sacrificed him to keep his cab inet Post. Sure enough Desinor sur Vived a subsequent Cabinet shuffle but snot popular among his family. Or. Rooster has dared Duvalier switch doctors to Stop the haitian coalition broadcasts on a certain Date. Sofar Duvalier has not been Able to do so though he has used both supernatural and human pressures against the group. He has staged a Bloodbath in Haiti striking All around him to try to stamp out haitian coalition sympathizers. It is increasingly obvious that witchdoctor inside Duvalier s own closed Circle Are cooperating with or. Rooster otherwise he could not be so Well in formed. is extremely unsettling tothe tyrant who cannot now spot his enemies. Whether he believes in witchcraft himself or not Duvalier s Strong grip of supernatural fear is being broken by or. Rooster. The stars and stripes b Page 11
