Word: etats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elegant reception for some 500 distinguished visitors and guests on the Saturday of Aristide's return -- a triumph all the more remarkable for the palace's lack of running water. The President's people had been especially nervous since a number of the invitees supported the 1991 coup d'etat against Aristide and were no doubt looking forward to a social debacle. But the Americans arrived with six portable toilets, and the Haitians lugged water up two flights of stairs to the reception level, and the party came off more or less without a hitch...
...hope that what we saw beginning with the disarming of FRAPH headquarters is continued. The Americans have taken out some of the perpetrators of the tragedy, but not all, not yet. We must encourage our partners to help us lead Haiti to a brighter future. Disarming the coup d'etat's bandits and torturers and rapists and killers is a first and most important step...
...night, Aristide must be thinking most about the challenges he will face. The country he goes back to rule will be changed in difficult and unpredictable ways. The man who goes back to take charge is not the same one who fled the September 1991 coup d'etat under the protective wing of the U.S. ambassador. "The presidency and exile have been a lesson for me," he told TIME recently. "I learned that I am a leader, but also a statesman with grave responsibilities. It is easier to be a leader than a negotiator. It is easier to lead...
...panic in which at least 30 people were drowned. Witnesses offered TIME correspondent Edward J. Barnes the first verified report that Haitian authorities have fired on refugees attempting to flee. At about 1 a.m., Barnes was told, a Haitian police launch approached the ship at Nan L'Etat, off Haiti's southern coast, surprising a boatload of refugees drawn from about 400 waiting in surrounding coves and hillsides for passage to America. "At first, local villagers say, the boat people froze in fear," Barnes reports. "The refugees tried to stay quiet and hide, hoping the (police) boat would pass. Then...
...Only two or three days after my inauguration, I started to reorganize the military radically. All those officials who participated in past coups d'etat were replaced. Military morale is high at the moment because there is a feeling that if you don't intervene in politics you can be promoted according to normal military procedures. It is a kind of renaissance of the Korean military: they are comfortably back in the barracks...