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...Freaks abound. You've been to Au Bon Pain. `Nuff said...
Toto Constant emerges from his two-story white villa in Port-au-Prince, looking for all the world like a Sunday driver out for a spin in his Nissan rental. But the illusion is soon broken by the arsenal in his car: an M-1 carbine, an Uzi submachine gun and two .45-cal. pistols. Life can be dangerous if you're Emmanuel ("Toto") Constant, founder of the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti, or FRAPH, successor to the murderous Tontons Macoutes of the Duvalier...
...Jean-Bertrand Aristide--and eased a trade embargo that's only now beginning to squeeze the ruling elite. But today, White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said the U.S. was still pushing for a United Nations resolution to "remove the dictators by any means necessary." Meanwhile, in Port-au-Prince, an army-backed effort to whip up opposition to possible U.S. intervention flopped when a Roman Catholic bishop barred a priest from conducting a Mass commemorating Haitians killed in the July 28, 1915, U.S. invasion of Haiti...
...embassy in Port-au-Prince won't recognize elections that Haiti's military leaders are planning, American embassy spokesman Stan Schrager said, nor will the U.S.'s international allies. The junta's government functionaries said Monday they'd hold 10 days of meetings to arrange the general elections, but most Haitians are expected to ignore the balloting...
...that had perished as desperate people tried to flee by sea. Booth set off for the ruggedly beautiful north coast, looking for Haitians who had reportedly organized a resistance movement in support of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. "The divisions are as profound in the countryside as in Port-au-Prince," says Booth. "It's hard to see how the pro-military and pro-Aristide groups will ever find a middle ground...