People

By Guy D. Garcia

Sitting more or less alone in his suite at a luxury hotel in the French lakeside resort of Talloires, Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier remained a tyrant without a country. France's government, waging an uphill battle to win legislative elections next month, is anxious indeed to unload the former Haitian dictator. With here's-your-hat bluntness, Prime Minister Laurent Fabius snapped, "We want him to leave as quickly as possible." The U.S., which provided a military transport to fly Duvalier and his entourage into exile three weeks ago, refuses to give Baby Doc asylum. Liberia, the only nation that had expressed interest in playing host, had second thoughts and took itself out of the running last week. Meanwhile, warned the new Haitian governing council, any country that accepts the Duvaliers should be prepared to cooperate with an investigation into the family's finances. The council also announced that it was expropriating whatever Duvalier property it could, including six homes, a fleet of cars and a yacht.