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Brigadier General James C. Hill reported that he yanked the leash on two powerful enemies of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide rumored to be plotting a coup. Hill said he summoned to his office Franck Romain, a former Port-au-Prince police chief and mayor and former army chief Williams Regala, to warn them to stop their reported schemes against Aristide's government. TIME Miami correspondent Tammerlin Drummond reports: "Many Haitians feel that these former military leaders are just lying low until the last U.S. troops leave to make their move. There have been unconfirmed rumors of plots around Mardi Gras...
...Dressed down by the Vatican's Under Secretary of State, Levi proposed to run a retraction. But the official pointed sternly to the pen and paper on his desk. "The Holy Father wants you to write your resignation," he said. "Now!" (This year, too, the Vatican pressured Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide into seeking laicization if he wanted to remain President of Haiti...
...remark might have been uncharitably cynical were the official not standing directly across from the National Palace. While that building's facade has also been given an impressive face-lift to honor the Oct. 15 return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the state of affairs inside Haiti's house of state is considerably shabbier. The departing military-backed government ransacked the palace so thoroughly that executives at the nerve center of Haiti's government now have no vehicles, computers or typewriters, almost no pencils, only one toilet -- and just $11.5 million in the treasury on Aristide's return...
...panel moves from the courtly, bland and ineffectual Democrat Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island to the reactionary Helms, who promises to let few Administration positions go unquestioned. Helms has always been a bomb thrower, unafraid of blowing up reputations abroad and at home. He likened Haitian leader Jean- Bertrand Aristide to Adolf Hitler. He still refers to the world's most populous country as "Red" China. He stuck up for the architects of apartheid over the black majority in South Africa and once accused Reagan-era Secretary of State George Shultz of "playing footsie with the communists." Last year, after...
...Jean-Bertrand Aristide pledged to appoint a Cabinet not only of the poor, whose cause he championed, but also of the wealthy elite -- the very people who helped oust him from power three years ago. A diverse government, he insisted, would prevent upheaval and ease the transition to democracy. Meanwhile, with the cost of gasoline soaring to $37.50 per gal. on the black market, the U.S. and Aristide signed a $15 million agreement to stabilize prices...