Word: departing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doubts and arguments underscore the immense gamble Clinton was taking in pushing the Haiti confrontation to a crunch. By common consent in Washington, he was risking his presidency on the outcome -- and he would not necessarily win even if Carter and friends could persuade Cedras and friends to depart quietly, or even if a U.S. invasion were to succeed quickly with minimal loss of life. Either development might relieve the immediate crisis but raise the ante for the U.S. to help foster enough of a stable democracy in the unhappy island nation to prove it was not all in vain...
Alas, all FOPers did depart after a night of mental and physical preparation. 314 first-years, loaded down with their frame packs, boarded nine buses and two vans for a week in the wilderness...
...said the U.S. had "exhausted every available alternative" to military action, and he was "sorry" about opinion polls that suggest Americans overwhelmingly oppose the move. Speculation is rampant in the capital that the President will use tomorrow's speech to set a deadline for Haiti's military junta to depart...
...Depart from Baltics...
...repeat of the huge exodus that brought 1.2 million Rwandans into Zaire last month. The latest tide could pour out of southwestern Rwanda this week, when the last of 2,500 French soldiers who established a safe zone in June for 1.5 million frightened Hutu are scheduled to depart. Under domestic pressure to bring its troops home, the French government last week ignored a plea by the U.S. to stay on until the situation stabilizes. The Hutu fear that the African troops of the United Nations force replacing the French will not be able to guarantee their safety. Also poised...