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Venezuela's officers bungle a coup...
...proving they face reprisals, even death, back home is rarely easy. Those seeking a better life pose one of the more painful questions for a nation philosophically committed to an open door. While Administration officials acknowledge that the | political climate in Haiti has worsened since the Sept. 30 coup that deposed democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, they maintain that most of the boat people are economic migrants whose free-floating fears of persecution are not grounds enough for asylum. Backed by a Jan. 31 Supreme Court decision, little can now deter the Administration's plan to empty the detention...
Meanwhile, the Administration strove to create the impression that it was taking humanitarian steps to alleviate Haitians' suffering. Officials spoke of "redirecting" the economic embargo imposed by the Organization of American States, to relieve pressure on ordinary Haitians and target the assets of individuals connected with the coup. Yet in the four months since the trade ban was imposed Bush has taken no steps to implement such a "scalpel embargo," giving coup sympathizers time to clear their assets out of the U.S. An official acknowledged that the Administration had bowed to domestic business interests after complaints that the embargo...
Beys said that the Spin Doctors pulled a last-minute coup by raising their price from $1000 to $1200, threatening to cancel the concert if Beys did not pay them...
...council bravely demanded a single meeting with a few search committee members late in the search process. In fact, the UC fought until it scored a real coup: about an hour with part of the committee (which did not include its top members) in a meeting closed to all other undergraduates and the press...