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3. ONUGUST GASSNER KERSAINT, MINISTER of LABOR
SOCIAL WELFARE, RIVATE CONVERSATION WITH ANOTHER GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL ABOUT THE POLITICAL SITUATION in HAITI EXPRESSED THE
THATROUP WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD DEPOSE DUVAllER AND SEIZE POWER. in ORDER to FACILITATETAT, KERSAINT PROPOSED THAT COLONEL ROGER TRIBIE be MANEUVERED INTO THE POSITION of CHIEF of STAFF of THE ARMED FORCES.
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