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...food stand in the city, where after waiting in a very long line, my cousins treated my American taste buds to "kente"--a transliteration of Kentucky--fried chicken. They asked me how the whole chicken (neck and head included), deep-fried and seasoned with five spice, compared with the Colonel's. The Chinese kind tasted much better, I said...
...retired Air Force colonel who earns $150,000 as an executive can still draw his full military pension...
...idea of an interim presidency, however, is hardly far-fetched. Since seizing power in 1991, Cedras and the two other members of Haiti's reigning troika -- Lieut. Colonel Joseph Michel Francois, the police chief, and army chief of staff Philippe Biamby -- have tried repeatedly to set such a scheme in motion. Now, emboldened by the military-staged thug-fest that turned back the troopship U.S.S. Harlan County from Port-au-Prince on Oct. 11, the triumvirate is ready for its end game...
...brutal attacks on the exiled President's supporters are directed by men with similar interests but higher positions: Lieut. Colonel Joseph Michel Francois, the chief of police, and Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, the army commander. Under a U.S.-U.N.-brokered deal struck between Aristide and Cedras last July, the general and the colonel were to resign two weeks ago, allowing Aristide to return to the island and his office this week. Instead Cedras has broken agreements and employed every kind of delay while subordinates terrorize the population. Those who can have fled the capital, hoping the countryside is safer. Like...
...resentful," Parris said.Parris said she received a "very nice apology"from a lieutenant colonel at the MIT ROTC office...