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...rafting trip through nine miles of turbulence on Wyoming's Snake River--with a flotilla of reporters and security men paddling furiously behind--was the high point of the President's first full week of vacation. Clinton also suffered happily through a steady drizzle at the annual Jackson Hole Rodeo. And, inevitably, he played golf...
...exercises by Marines on Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas 200 miles north of Port-au-Prince and by soldiers of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The Pentagon also announced the arrival on station of a new command ship for the 14-vessel flotilla standing ready near Haiti: the U.S.S. Mount Whitney. Crammed with communications gear and sprouting a forest of antennae, it is one of two U.S. ships designed specifically to serve as a floating headquarters for an amphibious invasion...
Although Pentagon officials say they have received no invasion orders from the White House, they will be ready to carry them out as early as this week, following the arrival of a four-ship flotilla in the waters off Haiti. This amphibious ready group (ARG) carries 2,000 Marines and packs a tremendous wallop. The armada includes the Inchon, a helicopter carrier; the Portland and the Trenton, which can deliver troops to shore by boats and helicopters; and the Spartanburg County, designed to put tanks and other heavy equipment ashore. They join another helicopter carrier, the Wasp, with 650 Marines...
...Lake Saumatre from the Dominican Republic were flouting the United Nations fuel embargo against Haiti. Last Wednesday morning, Swing finally saw for himself. About an hour's drive from his elegant residence above Port-au-Prince, he stepped out of his armored car and trained his binoculars on a flotilla of wooden boats laden with large blue drums of petroleum. "It looks like a staging area for some of the contraband coming across," said the ambassador, an observation that has long been obvious to Haitians...
...Holloway is a man who loves women, adores their quiddities, luxuriates ceaselessly in their bodies: toes, earlobes, the whole array of earthly delights. When he is paying what would appear to be monomaniacal attention to one sweetheart, he is, naughty fellow, roistering in memory or anticipation with a flotilla of others. This isn't calculated, callous satyrism; Ira isn't Don Juan. He's helpless, a captive. (He does seem to have a job, but it's in public relations, and doesn't require much attention...