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Hundreds of people jammed the airport in Port-au-Prince to catch final flights to Miami and New York City, as the rest of the country put the international crisis on hold for World Cup soccer. The U.S.-led commercial travel ban, designed to budge the ruling junta, kicks in at midnight, and about half the 8,000 Americans in Haiti are expected to leave the country. But even as the deadline approached, virtually everyone took time out to watch local favorites Cameroon and Brazil face off. "This place is a powder keg, and it could...
HAITI. Clinton made his first post-trip appearance to announce more sanctions on Haiti's military bosses: a freeze on financial transactions between the U.S. and Haiti and a ban on airline flights beginning June 25. These steps are in addition to an ever tightening trade embargo on all imports but food and medicine. These pressures, Clinton said, are aimed at a "solution where the coup leaders step down...
Israeli researchers say soccer players should abstain from sex for six to eight days before a game for optimal performance, according to findings released on the eve of the World Cup . . . Defending champ Germany has already taken such advice to heart, banning wives and girlfriends from the team's hotel in Chicago; but in Detroit, Swiss team coach Roy Hodgson lightened up and lifted a sex ban on his players . . . Germany's national football team was also forbidden by its doctors to use their U.S. hotel swimming pool lest Chicago's ozone harm their lungs . . . Norway's state television...
Joining the growing phalanx of courts around the country that have attacked the military ban on gays, a federal district court in Seattle ordered the Washington National Guard to reinstate Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, a highly decorated nurse and a lesbian. Although the decision struck down as unconstitutional the Pentagon's old, pre-1994 prohibition against gays, the court's reasoning provides ammunition for assailing the new "don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue" policy...
...Chief Egyptian censor Hamdy Sorour, explaining why he was forced to ban Schindler's List last week