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Alfredo Stroessner, the dean of western despots after 34 years of iron rule in Paraguay, was ousted in 1989 after a military coup. He fled to Brazil, where he lives in a well-guarded mansion in Brasilia. Stroessner is said to enjoy fishing and traveling around the country visiting his former military buddies. He is also known to be an ardent fan of Xuxa (pronounced Shoo-shah), Brazil's Barbie-esque kiddie-show hostess...
...before. The agreement did not require the dictators to leave Haiti after their retirement, and they did not even sign it. It implied they and their followers were entitled to a "general amnesty" for the acts of repression that had left more than 3,000 dead since the 1991 coup. It treated men denounced as thugs as "honorable" officials worthy of "mutual respect." The blithe spirit that obliterated previous animosities even accorded a measure of legitimacy to de facto president Emile Jonassaint, 81, caricatured as the spineless puppet of the junta. No less than the President of the United States...
...second day of violence between Haiti's factions marked the third anniversary of the military coup that ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. U.S. troops' pervasive presence in Port-au-Prince failed to deter forces loyal to the military junta from disrupting a pro-democracy march of 5,000 people, in which skirmishes between the two opposing sides killed three people and injured at least 11. Amid gunfire, Aristide supporters struggled with pro-military "attaches," who were armed with machetes, sticks and pistols. One man was fatally shot in the head at point-blank range. No U.S. soldiers were reported...
Anker and the other signatories said they hope the terms of Clinton's September 18 negotiations with Haiti will be toughened. Under the present agreement, coup leader Raoul Cedras and his officials will resign on October 15, possibly with amnesty granted by the Haitian parliament...
...Russian aid pledge to $1 billion. Other notable deals: U.S. intelligence agencies will now help their counterparts in Russia in tracking down plutonium smugglers, and Clinton managed to convince the burly Russian leader to turn down any future arm-sales contracts with Iran. That final deal was a notable coup, says TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister...