The World - News from Jan. 30, 1986
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Tens of thousands of Haitians took to the streets of Cap Haitien, the country’s second-largest city, to demonstrate against President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier. Circulating among the protesters was an unsigned pamphlet calling for an eight-day general strike against his rule next month. The demonstrators marched to the city’s cathedral and briefly surrounded the police station, but police and army troops were apparently instructed not to react.
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