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...Pentagon disclosure Thursday that 27 political opponents ofHaitian President Jean-Betrand Aristidemay be targeted for assassination has infuriated the White House and State Department,TIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothreports. "It's Defense acting as a renegade department," a senior State official said after getting a phone call from a "livid" White House this morning. Booth says U.S. officials fear the release of such lists, compiled with dubious information, only undercut U.S. efforts in Haiti. Besides, she adds, such "hit lists" already abound in Haiti: "We're not going down these lists and warning people," a U.S. diplomat in Port...
Haiti offers the best opportunity. The military leaders in control have little popular support within the country and none outside it; they are hanging on to power by a thread. The new prime minister selected by exiled President Jean-Betrand Aristide is already in Haiti...
...Dick Betrand's fourth-seeded Big Red had come from behind to nip Colgate in Friday night's semifinal, and then watched tournament favorite Clarkson blow a 3-1 lead in the final '57 seconds of the second game and lose to the seventh-seeded Friars, 4-3, in overtime. With some 3000 of their inimitable fans bused in for the contest--including one toting the shrill cowbell that has fired dozens of Cornell squads to victory through the years--the Ivy Division winners seemed ready to restake their claim as the best in the East...
...considering the possibility of a trial of the war, a la Betrand Russell, and perhaps a "free for all," in which discussion will be open to anyone concerning any aspect...
...billion new coins last year, and still finds itself so short of change that it expects to produce 5.1 billion coins annually by 1970. and 7 billion by 1975. Where does the money go? For one thing, all those vending machines and parking meters, says Mint Director Eva Betrand Adams, 54, are gobbling up nickels and dimes as fast as her plants can turn out fresh ones. "However, the real culprits may be collectors." There used to be about 2,000,000 coin collectors in the U.S., says Eva, "but today there are up to 8,000,000. What...