Word: drummonds
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...succeed himself under Haiti's constitution, but can run again later. The problems of the western hemisphere's poorest nation will not wait for the millennium, though, and it looks as though Preval has about three months to return Haiti from the brink of anarchy. TIME's Tammerlin Drummond reports: "It's going to be a pretty tall order for him because he does not enjoy the love of the people that Aristide did." The new president must try to lead a nation with 70 percent unemployment and no established political institutions. To rebuild the economy, Drummond reports, Preval...
...without some fact gathered, some nugget of data gleaned or some key piece of reporting made possible by research-center librarians and their computer databases. For a story on Haiti's upcoming elections, for example, center staff members faxed and E-mailed a background briefing to Miami correspondent Tammerlin Drummond...
...quoted as saying in an interview with Libete, an independent Creole-language weekly newspaper that he founded and directs. The Clinton Administration has been downplaying a spate of killings and riots in the last two weeks after Aristide made incendiary remarks about political opponents and elites. TIME's Tammerlin Drummond reports that the timing couldn't have been worse for Clinton: "Haiti was one of his great foreign policy achievements. Now it may be unraveling just as he is trying to deal with Bosnia." Elections are scheduled for December 17, but Aristide is barred by the Constitution from running...
Haitian radio reports that 47 Haitian refugees drowned Friday when their flimsy and overcrowded boat capsized as it started a journey north. "There will most likely be an escalation of violence as the elections approach, and this could jeopardize the American presence there," says Drummond. About 2,500 American troops remain in Haiti as part of a larger United Nations peacekeeping force. They were scheduled to leave the island next February...
...August runoffs. Aristide, whose term ends next February, cannot succeed himself, but has said he might run again in 2000.TINDER BOX? Insiders say that the Port-au-Prince mayoral election results are so explosive that public reaction to them could jeopardize national stability, TIME's Tammerlin Drummond reports. Haitian folk singer Mano Charlemagne, the putative winner, performs songs urging his fellow countrymen to kill all former Tontons Macoutes and dump their corpses on the doorstep of the U.S. special forces. At a recent campaign rally, he suddenly whipped out a .45-caliber pistol from his belt when a disturbance broke...