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...were picked up at sea, the largest single number in one day since the September 1991 military coup that overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. With the current processing center on a Navy ship off Jamaica already jammed, President Bill Clinton was forced to reopen the old facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba to handle the overflow. "This should have been anticipated," said Ernest Preeg, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former U.S. ambassador to Haiti. "And I think the surge will continue to escalate...
...Prince bought radio air time on local stations to broadcast messages in local Creole warning fleeing Haitians: "If you take a new boat, one thing is certain: You won't get to the United States." As of yesterday, refugees are being shipped to Panama, rather than being processed at Guantanamo Bay for possible passage to the U.S. The policy change hasn't gone over well with backers of exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who threatened today to challenge it in court.parpar
...tragedy reported there since a liberalized U.S. immigration policy took effect June 16, and probablyjust one in a long line of similar unreported incidents, according to Barnes. To stem the tide, the U.S. announced a new policy to send as many as 10,000 refugees to Panama, rather than Guantanamo Bay which is closer to the U.S. The White House made the decision after Monday's showing -- the busiest day yet, with the U.S. Coast Guard intercepting 3,247 boat people in 70 boats. The U.S. also sent potential firepower: four amphibious Navy warships, with 2,000 Marines on board...
...Coast Guard patrols intercepted at least 20 more refugee boats fleeing Haiti, adding about 400 asylum-seekers to yesterday's one-day record of 1,500. The surging response prompted Defense Secretary William Perry to weigh sending them to the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba -- and sparked rumors in Haitian and U.S. political circles that invasion is imminent. But TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson doubts it: Haitian strongman Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras is sending signals that he might step down in August, a major aim of the Clinton Administration...
...Caribbean nation. Both steps heightened tensions and led to conjectures that a U.S. invasion may be in the works. Other warning signs of a confrontation proliferate, says TIME correspondent Edward Barnes. The French government is evacuating its dependents. The U.S. Marines have begun military exercises off Cuba's Guantanamo, about 100 miles from Haiti's coast. ABC News reports that U.N. documents quote Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott as saying the U.S. will not wait beyond the end of July before using force. In Haiti the government has responded with attacks by thugs on U.N. observer teams, beating...