European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Dura for fled Ltd Ohlde the Palace. pro Hitmi can t be get. In a drought Ridden til citizen i Jam a in in search of water. Up Wyto attn. Hen aha Readi hag live new the United states. One in five haitians can read and write and Toyo education statistics show that Only 9 a we of secondary school age children Are to Ted in secondary schools. Corruption that prompted former finance Tor Marc Bazyn to argue that 36 percent of state a were improperly diverted has had 28 years top established residents say. Of 83,1988 or Haiti Hopes to make the country Bloom again by Kernan Turner associated press a Ubelin Jolicoeur Calls himself or. Haiti and probably is one of Thebes known haitians in the world albeit under a different name. The new minister of tourism served As the role Model for Petit Pierre the gossipy character in Graham Greene s novel the comedians who greeted new arrivals to dockside and knew All the dark secrets of Haiti. Jolicoeur also is one of the few men on the Caribbean Island who publicly criticized the government of the departed president for life. Jean Claude Duvalier and did not suffer or it. The Dapper slight Man dressed nastily in Black suit White shirt and tie and carrying a Silver tipped Black walking stick looks fittingly like a character from a novel i m living my own legend Jolicoeur said. In recent months Jolicoeur s real life has been As exciting As any novel. He has had a ringside seat to the fall of the Duvalier regime. About live months ago he began writing critically in the weekly newspaper be Petit Sam Edloir Little saturday nigh about what he called the infamy of the Duvalier regime. How did i survive because i am me Jolicoeur said. I am famous i am ethical i have ends everywhere and everyone owes me something. And my name is Jolicoeur which in French Means pretty heart i have a pure heart and i live up to my a few minutes after Duvalier and his family fled Haiti aboard a . Air Force transport plane on feb. 7, Jolicoeur appeared at the Airport to Greet More than 200 foreign reporters and photographers covering the Story desperate Tor information. I m or. Haiti he declared waving his Black walking stick and his voice filled with euphoria. The country is open. The exiles must he then got in his four wheel drive vehicle and led a Convoy of journalists in search of details on a High Speed Chase to the National Palace the Caseres Dessalines military Barracks and the . Embassy. Later in the morning when the six Man civilian military National government Council stood on the Steps of the Palace for a 21-gun Salute Jolicoeur was beside them in a White suit. A week later Jolicoeur talked with a correspondent Over lunch at a table in the veranda restaurant of the grand hotel oloffson the Model for the hotel which served As the principal setting Tor Greene s famous novel Oft Haiti. I introduced Graham Greene to Haiti said Jolicoeur recalling that they were introduced by novelist Truman capote in 1954 at another port Arbelin Jolicoeur Willil Rutt the country tourism. A Prince hotel. Bernard led Erich. A time Magazine correspondent who once published an English language newspaper in Haiti said Jolicoeur who wrote a popular column for the paper always has known How to use satire to make a Point. He spoke out Here when no one else would do it Diederich said. His technique was to say Jean Claude was slip old in one sentence and then smother him with bouquets in Jolicoeur said he gambled that the Tonton Machutes the president s dreaded private militia would not be smart enough to read Between the lines. He said his writing Campaign against the government began when Duvalier expelled 50 journalists on nov. 28, 1980. People were afraid for me. They said i was committing suicide but i knew that i was protected by my name he said. What would it have been not to have used my lame on behalf of the people he asked. Jolicoeur Tho change of government As a new birth for Haiti. He said Duvalier left the country in a mess and it will take time to write a new Constitution and Laws. The provisional government should continue in Power for two or three years before elections Are held he said. I took the Job As director of tourism because i feel the country is free he said. I Hope As director of tourism that i can capitalize on my knowledge and acquaintances around the world to help make halt Bloom his immediate goals Are to persuade cruise ships to return to halt and to arrange for stopovers by . Naval vessels. Sailors bring life and Money which helps the people he said. The country has never needed help As much As now especially from americans. They can help by coming Here to spend their even before the Duval lers haitian governments had a tradition of depleting the country s coffers before they were turned out of Power. We must create a new identity for haitians said a Duvalier. This is a country in gestation. It s like a pregnant woman we Don t know when Shell give despite the problems the youth who make up nearly half the country s population Are optimistic. Alt Dor Blondell an 18-year-old student who left As a boat person before the departure of Duvalier said he had no intention of risking the voyage to Miami or the Bahamas again in the near future with the political change it should be easier for a Young person to find a Job he said in an interview at the red Cross office where he was brought with 76 other boat people picked up by the . Coast guard. With the Duvalier regime nobody had a Chance unless you had Rich parents. Now the Young people must return to help reconstruct the country he said. The stars and stripes Page 15
