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...president Carter, fresh off a dubious victory in Haiti that will apparently allow Raoul Cedras to remain in the country if not in power, announced that he had had a "very pleasant" conversation with Fidel Castro and hoped to pressure the Administration into making concessions. Bill Clinton, meanwhile, has Guantanamo Naval Base filled to capacity with tens of thousands of dissatisfied Cubans, a concentration camp that will cost millions in its first months alone...
...Cubans who have close relatives among the exiles in Florida and who are willing to drop by the U.S. Interests Section office in Havana to apply for emigration. The big losers are the 25,000 Cubans who risked their lives at sea only to wind up in tents at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station or in Panama. They cannot apply unless they return to Havana...
...return," and he promises not to punish them. Some of the rafters in the "safe havens" will try to get to the U.S. by that route, but others will not. Attorney General Janet Reno says those who choose not to go back to Cuba will be held at Guantanamo "indefinitely." That is a harsh ruling but an unavoidable one. If the naval station were to become a processing point for entry to the U.S., another wave of emigres would head straight...
...attack. As tensions heightened, William Gray III, Clinton's special envoy on Haiti, brought General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, together with Aristide for a 90-minute meeting on Tuesday, when details of the invasion were discussed. The U.S. also began enlisting Haitian refugees from Guantanamo to participate in an interim police force that would step in to replace the Haitian army and restore order. A token force of about 300 troops from eight Caribbean nations would then join a larger international peacekeeping force that would quickly replace U.S. units and train a permanent new Haitian...
...their homeland. Washington proposed an agreement under which the U.S. would accept some 20,000 legal immigrants annually (up from about 2,700 last year). In return, Fidel Castro's regime would take further steps to deter unsafe rafters from departing Cuba. The 16,000 Cubans now at Guantanamo naval base would have to take their place on a waiting list, meaning they would not enter the U.S. for many years...