The World - News from Feb. 24, 1986

French Premier Laurent Fabius branded as “not correct” a U.S. refusal to take ousted Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier off France’s hands. Giving the clearest signal yet of Paris’ irritation with Washington over Duvalier’s status after he fled Haiti on Feb. 7, Fabius said, “They (the Americans) did not want to take him back, which was not correct on their part.” A number of countries have refused to take the Haitian dictator, and he and his family remain in a luxury hotel in the French Alps. “We have no intention of keeping him,” Fabius said. “The sooner he goes, the better. . . . But we still need to find a country that will take him in.”