Word: bertrande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flight shutdown was the latest move designed to further pressure the military leaders who ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Earlier in the week the Clinton Administration widened the freeze on Haitian financial assets in the U.S. to include not just the military, but all citizens. Meanwhile, reports circulated that the U.S. was offering big cash for Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and his cronies to simply leave the country. The State Department would neither confirm nor deny the rumors, but they clearly were sowing seeds of doubt among the military rank and file about whether their officers would still be around...
...argument for invasion is simple: all other alternatives have not worked. Haiti's internal turmoil is a legitimate U.S. interest because it sends thousands of unwanted refugees to American shores. Jean-Bertrand Aristide is a democratically elected President owed support in the hemisphere. Yet why should America be willing to put its soldiers' lives on the line to save Haiti? If the U.S. can negotiate with North Korea, why can it not do the same with the unsavory Haitian regime? If the refugees can be filtered through Jamaica, why should the U.S. worry about reforming the society from which they...
...give up power. The once lackadaisical trade embargo is beginning to bite now that U.S. ships are forcibly halting all sea traffic and the land border from the Dominican Republic has been virtually shut down. Two new measures aimed at toppling the strongmen who deposed democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991 -- suspension of all commercial air traffic from the U.S. beginning this Saturday, and a freeze on Haitian assets, including bank accounts and credit cards -- have provoked panic and pain...
...saber rattlers still managed to finish with a respectable record of 5-4. And the saberites were the only squad a qualify for the northeast regional competition in New York, in which they finished fourth out of six teams. Both Bertrand and Legutko made it to the regional semifinals, with Bertrand coming in third overall in the saber...
Seniors: Toby Lee, Charles Bertrand, Adam Hirsch, Paul Legutko