The nation . aid,though, that however skillful Du-valier may be at staying in office,he is not very adept at running bogs down in the minutiae heinsists upon handling, -\<\ the lastman to get his ear frames the direc-tive. This can result in any numberof people being sent in anv numberof directions on the same you add to this a great knackfor selecting the wrong man lor tin-wrong job, it becomes evident whythe great crusade has never, asDuvalier admits, got off the fails to do so most conspicuous-ly in its negotiations foi aid fromthe United States One project th
The nation . aid,though, that however skillful Du-valier may be at staying in office,he is not very adept at running bogs down in the minutiae heinsists upon handling, -\<\ the lastman to get his ear frames the direc-tive. This can result in any numberof people being sent in anv numberof directions on the same you add to this a great knackfor selecting the wrong man lor tin-wrong job, it becomes evident whythe great crusade has never, asDuvalier admits, got off the fails to do so most conspicuous-ly in its negotiations foi aid fromthe United States One project thatwas reall) moving, the irrigation anddevelopment of the Artihonite Val- ley, ground to a standstill when Du-valier insisted, over the objectionsof Norman Ward, adviser andtrustee for the S4,500,000 Develop-ment Loan Funds, on appointinga man he had himself jailed for mal-feasance to a chief engineering in-spection post. Ward refused to letthe project become such anotherboondoggle as the Export Import. Banks investment of $25 million inthe Valleys Peligre Dam. He wasejected from the country and Gar-vey Laurent, the young man con-sidered most responsible for gettingadditional funds for the discreditedproject, was dumped. I was orderedfrom the country lor putting a pic-ture of them, captioned HaitisLoss, on the front page ol the Port-au-Prince Tim \ I Cap Haitien this summer twodemonstrations were staged againsta Point IV regional developmentprogram called Pote Cole, whichdid not provide as many jobsthe President had promised in anoptimistic speech a year earlier. Thetop Haitian officials were run outof town, and every possible blockhas been put in the way ol thePoint IV officials. Admittedly, tllatter made some mistakes: theybuilt themselves hilltop houses, they ran around a great deal in jeeps auAthe) failed to establish lurnionrelations with the inhabitants sur-rounding the work. But if any worthswhile activit) was going on in thecountry, it was in this Point I\develop
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