Never Would Have Left: Duvalier

Ousted President Jean-CLaude Duvalier said today that he was not told his stay in France was to be temporary at the time he was flown out of Haiti on a U.S. Air Force plane, and that he would never have agreed to leave if he had thought he would not be welcome here.

Duvalier, speaking from the Alpine hotel where he has been cooped up since Feb. 7 while France seeks a permanent place of exile, told the radio station Europe 1 that he has appealed to the French government to let him stay here quietly with his family and promised that he is finished with politics.