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Cuba's U.N. ambassador said Havana and Washington should hold direct talks on lifting the 32-year-old economic embargo against Cuba if the U.S. really wants to stem the mounting refugee flow. If not, he said, President Clinton's beefed-up sanctions would lead to civil war on the island and send "millions of illegal immigrants" toward U.S. shores. The White House rebuffed the advice. Meanwhile, the U.S. military prepared to move 5,000 American personnel out of the Guantanamo Bay Navy base so they could move thousands of Cubans in for indefinite detention. Defense Secretary William Perry said...
...certainly a life knowable to Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, the transcontinental socialite and current United States ambassador to France, whose jet-setting exploits are engagingly chronicled by TIME contributor Christopher Ogden in Life of the Party (Little, Brown; 504 pages; $24.95 ). If the genre existed, Life of the Party would be billed as a True Romance because it exhaustively details the affairs that have made Harriman legendary...
...when the White House chooses to do so. Over state-run television and radio, Haitian puppet President Emile Jonassaint called the U.N. vote "arbitrary, iniquitous and in violation of international rights." He also, redundantly, suspended Haitian's civil liberties and transferred emergency power to the military. In Washington, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Madeline Albright said the military rulers could leave "voluntarily and soon or involuntarily and soon." BTW: The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that it intercepted 16,019 Haitian boat people in July, setting a new monthly record for the total picked...
...political side too, the Administration seemed to be going through preparatory exercises and building a case for intervention. Madeleine Albright, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., announced that Washington had signed up 12 Latin-American and Caribbean countries to contribute troops to a post- Cedras peacekeeping force in Haiti. (She may have gone too far. A White House official later said the 12 "were countries with whom we have had conversations. They have not necessarily agreed to participate.") Meanwhile, the State Department put out additional reports of murders and rapes committed by the Haitian regime...
...Ambassador Madeleine Albright said she will begin circulating a resolution among U.N. Security Council members shortly, asking them to allow a U.S.-led force to use "all necessary means" to stabilize Haiti. That's the same phrase used when President Bush approached the Security Council in 1990 to lay the groundwork for the Persian Gulf...