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WASHINGTON -- PRESIDENT CLINTON asked aides at a National Security Council meeting on Haiti to prepare a comparison between a possible U.S. invasion of Haiti and Reagan's 1983 invasion of Grenada. Clinton wanted a study of forces needed, likely casualties -- and rationales used. After the meeting one official asked, half joking, "Are there any Americans in medical school in Haiti?" Another answered, "No, but we've found two American dentists there...
WASHINGTON -- Having already been criticized for providing outdated information during the invasion of Grenada, DEFENSE DEPARTMENT MAPMAKERS raised eyebrows among Pentagon strategists with maps of Haiti in which the major airport's name was obsolete. A look at the fine print revealed this disclaimer: "Compiled in 1962 from best available sources...
...REFUGEES now that Panama has reneged on an agreement to do so. Some refugees might end up traveling farther than they initially bargained for: Washington has approached several nations in West Africa, including French-speaking Benin and Senegal, about harboring Haitians. Administration officials say the Caribbean islands of Antigua, Grenada and Dominica have agreed "in principle" to set up safe havens...
...President and his advisers tried to downplay the blow. While "sharply disappointed," his aides said, Clinton was not angry. Other Caribbean countries, they promised, would be found to replace Panama; Grenada, for instance, had agreed "in principle" to provide a haven for at least some of the refugees. But the sudden change of heart by Panama only deepened the impression that the Administration was practicing a kind of voodoo diplomacy toward Haiti, lurching from headline to headline and hoping that somehow the country's leaders would magically change their ways or disappear...
...recent and well-publicized practice invasion of Haition the island of Great Inagua temporarily drew the nation's attention away from peace in South Africa and war in Bosnia. Rumors have been circulating about another Panama- (or Grenada-) style strike to remove the despotic military leadership and allow economic sanctions to be lifted...