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Aristide did not run, and win, until three years later, but the CIA always viewed him as unstable. A CIA briefer once told Congressmen that Aristide had been treated for psychiatric problems in a Canadian hospital, though the hospital said he had never been admitted. Aristide's supporters have long suspected the CIA encouraged the 1991 coup that drove him into exile. Intelligence sources in Washington deny it, but concede that the CIA knew about the coup in advance and did nothing to stop it. By one account, though, it did indirectly save Aristide's life. On the night...
...many voters in the state of Washington, Thomas Foley's candidacy is not just unseemly -- it's downright disrespectful. In 1992, 60% of those voters gave a thumbs up to Initiative 573, a state referendum that imposes term limits on holders of state and federal offices. For Congressmen, the limit is three two-year terms over a 12-year period. Foley so vehemently disagrees with his constituents that he is not only seeking a 16th consecutive term in the House but has also filed a lawsuit challenging such limits on federal officeholders as unconstitutional. Thus far, the federal courts think...
...Leaders did not build public support first. From the day U.S. troops swarmed ashore, neither the American people nor Congress really had a firm fix, Flournoy says, on "the U.S. interests at stake, the objectives sought, our strategy for achieving them and the risks associated with intervention." Many Congressmen and voters are not persuaded an invasion of Haiti serves U.S. interests, and Clinton may be starting to make the case too late...
...seek explicit congressional approval. Lawmakers do not seem sufficiently united to block an invasion, but Republicans can be counted on to criticize the President. They are already charging that an invasion is just a political stunt timed to boost the Democrats' sagging electoral fortunes. In fact what most Congressmen really want, says a Capitol Hill staff member, "is to be consulted, but let Clinton take the heat." Beginning Monday, the Administration's national-security officials will launch a sortie on Capitol Hill to brief key lawmakers...
However, the most quietly painful lack of support was from African-American leaders themselves. Though 20 members of the Congressional Black Caucus were invited, the only black elected officials to attend were Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke and Congressmen Kweisi Mfume of Maryland and Donald Payne of New Jersey. Jackson was the only representative from any of the other major black civil-rights organizations to show up. Chavis seemed to be alluding to absentees as well as critics when he declared, "The last time I checked my back, it was someone of African descent that put the dagger in and twisted...