The World - News from May 14, 1989

Haiti’s president, Lt. Gen. Prosper Avril, has fired two widely criticized Cabinet ministers in one of the highest-level personnel moves since rank-and-file soldiers brought him to power eight months ago. The government decree, read over state radio, came less than six weeks after the president narrowly escaped an attempt by some officers to oust him. The two Cabinet members, Foreign Affairs Minister Serge Elie Charles and Information Minister Anthony St. Pierre, caused a public outcry for their role in granting a safe conduct pass out of Haiti in December to former Port-au-Prince Mayor Franck Romain. Romain was indicted in connection with a massacre of church parishioners in November, 1988.