World IN BRIEF : HAITI : Officials Cancel November Elections
Election officials in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, postponed general elections that had been planned for November. The Electoral Council cited a shortage of money and equipment. It did not set a new election date but said voting will take place in time to inaugurate a president by Feb. 7, 1991. That date, previously planned for the inauguration, will be the fifth anniversary of the flight of dictator Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier. The last attempt at free elections in Haiti in 1987 collapsed when thugs supported by the army killed at least 34 voters. Ertha Pascal Trouillot was appointed provisional president by the country’s 12 political parties last March.
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