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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...
...Haiti's poorest citizens, the term "quality of life" is a cruel mockery. Since the Sept. 30 military coup that deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and precipitated a hemisphere-wide economic embargo, malnutrition and disease have spread at a rate well beyond the usual disquieting norm. In rural areas, hungry peasant farmers eat the seeds they should be planting. Twenty miles from the capital, immunization programs have been curtailed, a casualty of government efforts to conserve fuel that make refrigeration of vaccines impossible. As a result, children are dying of measles. Yet in the slums, people do not complain...
Thus caught between its commitment to restoring democratic rule in Haiti and its determination to cork the outpouring of boat people, the Bush Administration weighed several unsatisfactory steps. One possibility was to end the embargo, which has hit poor Haitians the hardest. Such a reversal of policy, however, could prove messy for Bush in an election year. A military intervention in a country that poses no threat to international peace and security would be all but impossible to justify; last week the State Department quickly denied that any military option was being considered at present. The likeliest option...
Meanwhile, diplomatic efforts to resolve the Haiti crisis got nowhere. Repeating its demand for an end to a U.S.-backed economic embargo, the government that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide scheduled elections for Jan. 5 to replace...
...American journalists witnessed the attack and, though they were beaten, escaped to report it. Outrage followed swiftly last week. The European Parliament called for an arms embargo on Indonesia. The Netherlands, which heads an aid consortium for Indonesia, halted new assistance, and there were street demonstrations in Portugal...