Word: duboeuf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...States were designed to punish the military and its elite backers for overthrowing President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in September 1991. Yet even a modicum of money buys a pleasant life-style in Haiti. Ships from Europe keep stores in middle-class Petionville stocked with Italian artichoke hearts and Georges Duboeuf wine from France. Last December the so-called friends of Haiti -- the U.S., France, Canada and Venezuela -- warned the military that they would seek a worldwide U.N. embargo on all commercial goods to Haiti unless progress was made to restore Aristide to power by Jan. 15. That threat proved hollow...
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