The World - News from Feb. 6, 1987

Haiti’s government announced strict new security measures that critics said signaled the beginning of a new dictatorship. A government communique said that police will intervene without warrants when a suspect is caught in terrorist or seditious acts. At a press conference, Jean-Claude Bajeux, an organizer of an opposition democratic group, the Congress of Democratic Forces, said the new security measures threaten all its members and supporters, create general fear and panic and “put the whole population in a state of permanent guilt.”