Word: haiti
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...feel they are better off now than three years ago. These voters are hardly the ones to vote for a change. At the same time, Clinton has racked up a very impressive foreign policy record. During his administration, major peace initiatives have been achieved in the Middle East, Haiti, Northern Ireland and Bosnia. As he did with Haiti, Clinton is going against public opinion to send troops to Bosnia to enforce the peace. This is extremely risky because it's a mission that could end in disaster. But Clinton has found that the American public admires politicians with backbone, even...
...number of public events in the coming weeks to try to calm the fears of the majority of Americans polls say still oppose sending in U.S troops. "The polls aren't moving much, but the White House didn't expect them to," Carney says. "This is much like Haiti: they're trying to reassure people that the troops are in good hands." At today's event, the President delivered a speech before organizations providing humanitarian relief to Bosnians. Flanked by three Bosnian refugee families, the President made the case for intervention on humanitarian grounds: "We cannot bring back...
America's intervention in Somalia, which cost $2 billion and the lives of 30 servicemen and changed nothing, along with the crisis in Haiti and the war in Bosnia, has impelled U.S. leaders to search for new definitions of the nation's interests abroad. Even the prudent George Bush, who ordered U.S. troops to Somalia in the first place, was rethinking the old guidelines just before he left office. He suggested that "military force might be the best way to protect an interest that qualifies as important but less than vital." Force is a key adjunct to diplomacy, he argued...
...weekly newspaper that he founded and directs. The Clinton Administration has been downplaying a spate of killings and riots in the last two weeks after Aristide made incendiary remarks about political opponents and elites. TIME's Tammerlin Drummond reports that the timing couldn't have been worse for Clinton: "Haiti was one of his great foreign policy achievements. Now it may be unraveling just as he is trying to deal with Bosnia." Elections are scheduled for December 17, but Aristide is barred by the Constitution from running for a consecutive term. "There was a meeting of Aristide supporters recently...
...that 47 Haitian refugees drowned Friday when their flimsy and overcrowded boat capsized as it started a journey north. "There will most likely be an escalation of violence as the elections approach, and this could jeopardize the American presence there," says Drummond. About 2,500 American troops remain in Haiti as part of a larger United Nations peacekeeping force. They were scheduled to leave the island next February...