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During the seven-month tenure of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haitians who were captured by the U.S. Coast Guard while trying to flee to south Florida were routinely returned to Haiti...
Catlin, whose office shelves are lined with books with titles like Existence and Solitude, The Meaning of Anxiety, and Theory of Suicide, recalled a favorite anecdote with which to close his interview. "Bertrand Russell," he said, "while he was an undergraduate at Cambridge, described how he felt so despairing that he would go to a secluded spot and think about suicide, but as he thought more about it, he realized how interested he was in mathematics and decided to live on." It is these kinds of stories that Catlin hopes students will remember...
When a military coup sent Jean-Bertrand Aristide into exile late last month, George Bush's first reaction was to denounce the overthrow and call for the reinstatement of Haiti's first democratically elected President. But last week Bush seemed to back away, citing allegations of human-rights abuses by the activist priest -- charges soon bolstered by an Organization of American States team in Haiti. Most disturbing: a Sept. 27 speech in which Aristide seemed to condone Pere Lebrun, a Haitian form of lynching in which a gasoline- soaked tire is set ablaze around a victim's neck. Officially...
Last week, after an old-fashioned coup ousted Haitian President Jean- Bertrand Aristide, the entire western hemisphere focused its outrage on the brazen military bosses in Port-au-Prince. The Americas were not prepared to let Haiti's military men get away with it. Their takeover, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said bluntly, "will not succeed...
...deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide addressed the Organization of American States in Washington last week, the scene outside was reminiscent of the good old days in Port-au-Prince. Thousands of Haitians sang and danced and demonstrated on his behalf outside the white fortress-like building on Constitution Avenue. The atmosphere was heady, anticipatory. There were drums. "While he is trying to get justice in there, we are with him out here," said a Haitian protester, who waved a long red-and-blue banner that said it all, in simple terms: WE WANT ARISTIDE. In Haitian Creole they have begun...