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Dominican Republic and Haiti: Country Studies

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Index<br />

zation<br />

Unified Democratic Committee (KID),<br />

445<br />

Unified <strong>Haiti</strong>an Communist Party (Parti<br />

Unifie des Communistes <strong>Haiti</strong>ens<br />

PUCH),444<br />

Union for National Reconciliation, 299<br />

United Confederation of Workers, 80<br />

United Nations (UN), 7, 206, 222, 253,<br />

256-57, 300, 303, 309, 382, 415, 417,<br />

425, 449, 453-54, 460, 483<br />

United Nations Educational, Scientific,<br />

<strong>and</strong> Cultural Organization<br />

(UNESCO), 206, 349<br />

United Nations embargo {see also economic<br />

sanctions): against <strong>Haiti</strong>, 222,<br />

253, 256, 396, 468, 484-85<br />

United Nations General Assembly 425<br />

United Nations peacekeeping mission:<br />

in <strong>Haiti</strong>, 419, 425, 449, 485<br />

United Nations Security Council, 304,<br />

305, 306, 307, 419, 484<br />

United States Agency for International<br />

Development (USAID), 62, 100, 154-<br />

55, 157, 350, 383, 384, 389, 395<br />

United States Arms Control <strong>and</strong> Disarmament<br />

Agency (ACDA), 471, 472<br />

United States Geological Survey, 143<br />

United States Immigration <strong>and</strong> Naturalization<br />

Service (INS), 327<br />

United States Marines: in <strong>Dominican</strong><br />

<strong>Republic</strong>, 36, 37, 229; in <strong>Haiti</strong>, 280,<br />

280-81, 282-83, 367, 462, 463, 471,<br />

474<br />

United States Navy, 280<br />

United States South Porto Rico Company,<br />

131<br />

United States Virgin Isl<strong>and</strong>s, 149<br />

United States-<strong>Haiti</strong>an Business Development<br />

Council, 383<br />

Universal Postal Union (UPU), 206<br />

University of <strong>Haiti</strong>, 354, 428<br />

UNPHU. See Pedro Hendquez Urefia<br />

National University<br />

UPU. See Universal Postal Union<br />

urbanization: in <strong>Dominican</strong> <strong>Republic</strong>,<br />

68-70, 126; in <strong>Haiti</strong>, 314, 325-26, 434-<br />

36<br />

urban slums: in <strong>Haiti</strong>, 335, 336, 475<br />

USAID. See United States Agency for<br />

International Development<br />

Valdesia, 63<br />

Valle de Constanza, 59<br />

Valle de la Vega Real, 58<br />

Valle del Cibao (Cibao Valley), 58<br />

Valle de Neiba, 61<br />

Valle de San Juan, 59<br />

Valle de Santiago, 58<br />

Valles, Max, 295<br />

Vallieres, 321<br />

value-added tax: in <strong>Haiti</strong>, 372<br />

Valverde, 64, 228,<br />

Vasquez Lajara, Horacio, 33, 34, 37, 39<br />

Vega Real, 130<br />

Velasquez, Federico, 33<br />

Venezuelans: in <strong>Dominican</strong> <strong>Republic</strong>, 74<br />

Vertieres, 272<br />

vice presidency: in <strong>Dominican</strong> <strong>Republic</strong>,<br />

175<br />

Viceroyalty of New Spain, 265<br />

Vicini Burgos, Juan Bautista, 39<br />

Victoria y Victoria, Eladio, 36<br />

Vincent, Jean-Marie, 454<br />

Vincent, Stenio, 282, 284<br />

Vocational School of the Armed Forces<br />

<strong>and</strong> Police, 225<br />

Volunteers for National Security (Volontaires<br />

de la Securite Nationale—VSN)<br />

288, 295, 459, 463-64, 465, 466, 473,<br />

475<br />

voodoo, 94, 253, 268, 271, 283, 284, 286,<br />

288, 295, 297, 313, 344-46<br />

VSN. See Volunteers for National Security<br />

War of Restoration, 28, 73, 76<br />

War of the Castes, 270<br />

War of the Gr<strong>and</strong> Alliance, 266<br />

Welles, Sumner, 39<br />

Werleigh, Claudette, 418<br />

Wessin y Wessin, Elias, 45, 46, 218, 219<br />

wetl<strong>and</strong>s, mangrove: in <strong>Haiti</strong>, 321-22<br />

wheat production: in <strong>Dominican</strong> <strong>Republic</strong>,<br />

137<br />

WHO. See World Health Organization<br />

Wilson, Woodrow, 37, 216, 282<br />

"Wilson Plan," 37<br />

Windward Passage, 314<br />

women's organizations; in <strong>Haiti</strong>, 338-39<br />

women's rights: in <strong>Haiti</strong>, 338<br />

Worker Peasant Movement (Mouvement<br />

Ouvrier Paysan—MOP), 285,<br />

287, 444, 446<br />

581

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