The World - News from April 5, 1989

Haiti’s government, bowing to pressure from mutinous soldiers, said it has released from jail and deported to the Dominican Republic three army officers who tried to overthrow the country’s leader, Lt. Gen. Prosper Avril. Rebels surrendered control of Port-au-Prince’s airport, which reopened for the first time since Sunday’s coup attempt. The U.S. Embassy said there no longer appeared to be any active resistance in the army to the government. The three alleged coup conspirators were identified as Lt. Col. Himmler Rebu, commander of the Leopards Battalion; Col. Phillipe Biamby, commander of the Presidential Guard, and Col. Leonce Qualo, an administrative officer at army headquarters.