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...Jean-Bertrand Aristide's presidential palace was in a state of wild disarray all last week, though the Haitian government did manage to put on a fairly elegant reception for some 500 distinguished visitors and guests on the Saturday of Aristide's return -- a triumph all the more remarkable for the palace's lack of running water. The President's people had been especially nervous since a number of the invitees supported the 1991 coup d'etat against Aristide and were no doubt looking forward to a social debacle. But the Americans arrived with six portable toilets, and the Haitians...
...midst of this profound moral confusion, the Haiti crisis came like a test from on high. Here were good and evil laid out in black and white, or rather, black and creamy mulatto: the pastel luxury of Petionville vs. the dark, bottomless misery of the shantytowns. And in Jean-Bertrand Aristide, here was as Christ-like a figure as ever headed a state: devout, dedicated to the poor, and celibate on top of all that. Yet from Clinton's flip-flops to Carter's flirtation with Cedras, we dithered shamefully. Even after the troops had arrived, it was unclear...
Powell's sad life and wondrous music were in large part the inspiration for filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier's fond 1986 jazz eulogy, 'Round Midnight, but what is so imposing about the music on these CDs -- immediately, insistently impressive -- is not the sorrow but the vigor. Powell's may have been a troubled spirit, compromised and violated, but it was never stilled...
...Haiti, adding that he'd send "the bulk" of military personnel home within months -- when United Nations peacekeepers take over. Still, Clinton said in a statement, he reserved the right to keep secret from Congress sensitive military moves in Haiti. Meanwhile in Port-au-Prince,Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristidereaffirmed his pledge to step down when his term expires next year...
...Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned to Haiti on Saturday after three years in exile. He told thousands of jubilant Haitians that "the sun of democracy has risen to never set." Fears about possible military-sponsored violence had been eased earlier in the week when former military chief Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and his top deputy, Brigadier General Philippe Biamby, left Haiti for Panama. As part of a deal for his departure, the U.S. put down a $60,000 deposit to rent one of Cedras' luxury villas for at least a year. It refused to pick up the tab for two more...