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President Ertha Pascal-Trouillot was at home with her family when an army tank driver knocked on her door at 10 p.m. As gunfire echoed in the distance, he told her there was trouble and that she would be safer at the presidential palace, three miles away in Port-au-Prince, the capital. On the way, the driver stopped to pick up a second passenger, a heavyset, balding man whom Pascal-Trouillot could not identify in the dark. Only after arriving at the palace did the President learn that her companion was Dr. Roger Lafontant, former head of the Tontons...
...triumph of Aristide and his party, the National Front for Change and Democracy, was a resounding endorsement of his brand of theological populism, which is based on restoring the dignity and material well-being of the country's 6.2 million people. Even before the results were official, Port-au- Prince erupted in spontaneous street demonstrations bigger than the ones that followed the departure of the hated Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier in 1986. As police in riot gear nervously looked on, thousands of jubilant Haitians waved tree branches as a sign of joy and shouted, "Aristide is President!" Aristide...
Aristide's activism has also put him in mortal danger. Since 1986, there have been numerous attempts on his life. The danger was evident three weeks ago, when a grenade killed eight people at a rally outside Port-au-Prince. Aristide's uncanny ability to survive such attacks has led some Haitians to believe he is protected by magical and religious powers...
...lights went out just after 7 p.m. Then a granade exploded and gunfire was heard. With that, a street corner in Petionville, seven miles outside the capital of Port-au-Prince, was turned into a horror scene of shattered bodies and mangled limbs. Seven people were killed and 54 wounded...
Jeanne Hood, director of operations for Au Bon Pain, said MIT students represent a large portion of the Kendall store's customers. Hood said she did not think the shooting would hurt the store's business...