Word: haiti
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI: Receiving the presidential sash from predecessor Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Belgian-educated agronomist and former Haitian Prime Minister Rene Preval completed Haiti's first peaceful exchange of democratic power since it broke from France in 1804. Because Preval has little independent political support within the country, he is nagged by the notion that he is warming the presidential chair for a glorious return four years from now by Aristide, who may not succeed himself under Haiti's constitution, but can run again later. The problems of the western hemisphere's poorest nation will not wait...
Preval wants the U.N. to maintain a security presence in Haiti for six months beyond its current commitment, which expires at the end of February. About 2,000 troops, mostly Canadian, would stay if the U.N. approves the request, but the last American soldiers are expected to leave the country this spring. In his last official act as president on Tuesday, Aristide resumed diplomatic relations with Cuba...
Christopher spoke in detail about the accomplishments he has made in sixteen shuttles to the Middle East, in fostering stability in the fledgling republics of South Africa and Haiti and, more recently, in the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia...
Christopher cited the U.S. brokered peace processes in Bosnia and the Middle Fast as two of the most significant achievements of the Clinton administration. He also described the importance of U.S. involvement in Haiti, Mexico and North Korea...
...BUSINESS IN BOSNIA. Americans say they need to balance the budget. I don't know how the U.S. can balance the budget if it continues to play the role of the world's police force. How much did it cost the American people to "save'' Haiti? How much will it cost the American people to save Bosnia? The problem is not worth the price of one single American life. ROBERT W. CHAMBERS Killeen, Texas Via E-mail...