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...Haitians are aboard four Coast Guard vessels, two of which are at anchor off the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The remaining two vessels are on the lookout nearby for additional refugees...
...surprised that the U.S. has sent Marines to Guantanamo in order to be ready to protect the lives of its citizens living in Haiti. But the U.S. must also allow the OAS to follow its peaceful route. We are looking for ways to liberate the Haitian people, and military intervention is not one we even consider . . . Military intervention also raises ugly memories in Haiti, and we cannot exist if we forget our history. Neither U.S. officials nor Haitian officials support intervention...
After the Pentagon announced that it had sent a few hundred Marines to Guantanamo Bay naval base in case the 15,000 American citizens in Haiti had to be evacuated, spokesman Pete Williams quickly explained that it was only a precaution. The U.S. had "absolutely no interest" in using force, he said, and added, "I don't think we are going to have to carry out an evacuation...
...including 2,800 soldiers, 1,200 civilian technical advisers, 1,500 military advisers and 2,100 technicians assigned to the huge Lourdes facility outside Havana, which eavesdrops on U.S. telecommunications. Moscow did make apparent, however, that it expects Washington to match its retreat from Cuba by withdrawing from Guantanamo Bay naval base on the island's southeast shore, which the U.S. has occupied since...
Long before the first rehearsal of this Marine Corps thriller set at Guantanamo Bay, its author had exceeded the daydreams of almost any debut playwright. Not only was the show on its way to Broadway with a 20-member cast headed by erstwhile Oscar nominee Tom Hulce (Amadeus), but it had been bought for the movies by producer David Brown, whose credits include Jaws, The Sting and The Verdict. He made a deal that could bring creator Aaron Sorkin, 28, a sum well into six figures. By the time the show opened last week, however, the publicity about a wunderkind...