PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Jean-Claude Duvalier, 63, the self-proclaimed "president for life" of Haiti whose corrupt and brutal regime sparked a popular uprising that sent him into a 25-year exile, died Saturday of a heart attack, his attorney Reynold Georges said. The former leader had been staying at a private residence in Port-au-Prince and died there, Georges said.

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