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...President Jean-Bertrand Aristide who is scheduled to return to Haiti on Saturday, Clearly is a transient figure. He has provided no credible vision for Haiti's future and seems vague about the details of governing. The Clinton Administration's conditional support for Aristide is an appropriate response...
Haiti's President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is already tired of it. He put his irritation with his benefactors on full display even before all U.S. troops had gone ashore. For three full days after the Carter agreement, he uttered not a word of thanks to America for the 20,000 troops on whose backs he will ride to the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince...
...sentiment, not a strategy. And to paraphrase Lord Palmerston, America has no permanent sentiments, only permanent interests. The Emir of Kuwait, living high on the hog in Saudi Arabia waiting to be returned to his palace by American troops, was no more worthy or sympathetic a figure than Jean-Bertrand Aristide. But it did not matter much. America had more than altruistic reasons for going into Kuwait. Real, tangible, important things were at stake: oil, nuclear weapons, the future of the Middle East...
...junta for the past three years, emerged to reclaim his office last Thursday, he brought along a kind of personal insurance policy: 40 American MPs and soldiers from the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. Under their watchful gaze, the man who is second in popularity to President Jean- Bertrand Aristide was able to deliver an emotional speech celebrating the end of military rule and admonishing his fellow Haitians to exercise patience, mercy and restraint. His only rhetorical barb was reserved for junta leader Lieut. General Raoul Cedras. "Bye lakou blanche!" he declared. Rough translation: "Hit the road...
...understand it," she says. Raymond Kelly, the former NYPD chiefnow helping to rebuild the Haitian force, said he was having trouble getting thecops onto the streets at all. Without Haitian security, U.S. forces are fearingthey may have to fire on looting pro-democracy Haitians if the returningPresident Jean Bertrand Aristide can't control his people. "So much depends onAristide, and there is so little trust, even among the Americans at theembassy," says Michaels. "They have their fingers crossed and their toescrossed...