Word: bertrande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PREDICTIONS WERE STARK AND frightening. Opponents of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide foresaw serious consequences if the radical priest, ousted in a September 1991 coup d'etat, ever returned to power: rivers of blood would flow through the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and dozens of the regime's opponents would perish in barbarous "necklaces" of burning tires. The poverty-stricken nation would become a Marxist enclave and an enemy of the U.S. So how to explain that a year after Aristide and the country's first democratically elected government were returned to power...
...first day of the Persian Gulf War, Air Force stealth planes armed with precision-guided munitions blinded Saddam by knocking out his communications network and electrical power in Baghdad. The Pentagon launched a sophisticated psy-ops campaign against Haiti's military regime to restore deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Using market-research surveys, the Army's 4th Psychological Operations Group divided Haiti's population into 20 target groups and bombarded them with hundreds of thousands of pro-Aristide leaflets appealing to their particular affinities. Before U.S. intervention, the CIA made anonymous phone calls to Haitian soldiers, urging them to surrender...
...eager to hear uncensored news of the war, including some of the next areas to be targeted by U.S. bombers. As a result, many Iraqi soldiers deserted those positions. To prepare Haiti for the U.S. intervention there, Commando Solo beamed in radio and TV messages from deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Each broadcast began with the crow of a rooster, the symbol of Aristide's political party...
...physics paper was written in part by Bertrand I. Halperin, Hollis professor of mathematics and natrual philosophy. The paper, "Theory of the half-filled Landau level," was also number 10 in the last period...
...Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas Platform,the only Haitian political organization that hasn't condemned the June 25 election as fraudulent, has claimed victory. But the results are not yet clear. The hand-tallied count due out last Saturday still has not been released, and, according to partial results available early today, about half the seats in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies are due for August runoffs. Aristide, whose term ends next February, cannot succeed himself, but has said he might run again in 2000.TINDER BOX? Insiders say that the Port-au-Prince mayoral election results are so explosive...