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...with other members of the Assembly to debate and vote on a spate of bills to prepare for ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's return. At the top of their list: an Aristide-backed proposal to grant amnesty to Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras and junta supporters. TIME correspondent Bernard Diederich, who was there, said hundreds of jubilant Haitians surrounded the building, chanting "Handcuff Cedras!" as U.S. troops stood by. A few blocks away, the pro-junta forces struck back, critically wounding one man. Back inside the parliament, a quorum of legislators began debate on the amnesty measure, with a majority...
...second time in seven months, TIME's Edward Barnes, Cathy Booth and Bernard Diederich are in Haiti waiting for the Americans to arrive. Last October the U.S.S. Harlan County, trying to land with a U.N.-sponsored team of military and police advisers, turned back after anti-U.S. mobs demonstrated at the port. This time Barnes, betting things will be different, has rented a room in a "strategically located" brothel with a roof that should command a good view of the first attack. Miami bureau chief Booth spent several days % last week at the army's decrepit general quarters, trying...
Amid their grueling daily rounds, in which comforts are few and harassment of foreign journalists is growing -- friskings are common, and Barnes has twice been detained by police -- the reporters feel a dispiriting sense of deja vu. "For older Haitians," says Diederich, who once ran the newspaper Haiti Sun, "the current crisis is like a rerun of an old horror movie." Diederich had just been expelled from Haiti when "Papa Doc" Duvalier thwarted President Kennedy's attempt to remove him from power in 1963. "The lesson of Papa Doc's defying the U.S. has not been lost on those...
Covering the volatile situation in Haiti is a difficult and dangerous game for any correspondent. But for Bernard Diederich, it's a sadly familiar experience. Diederich, who joined TIME in 1956, has spent more than four decades on the Haiti watch. He ran the newspaper Haiti Sun for 14 years, until the Tontons Macoutes, "Papa Doc" Duvalier's ruthless police force, jailed and expelled him in 1963. After his deportation, Bernie continued to follow the country's plight from the Dominican Republic, Mexico and later Florida, where he is now based. The co-author of Papa Doc, the definitive history...
...Diederich's expertise and inside knowledge have been an invaluable resource for two other TIME correspondents who, along with photographer James Nachtwey, are covering the Haiti story. "He has an unsurpassed sense of Haitian history," says Edward Barnes, who wrote a recent story on Haitian refugees after months of difficult duty in Bosnia. "He is, simply, the best in the Caribbean." Says Cathy Booth, our Miami bureau chief, who was also in Haiti last week: "Bernie is indispensable for knowing good sources long before they become famous." Supplementing Diederich's contacts were sources tapped by chief political correspondent Michael Kramer...