Word: haitian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After addressing the OAS last week, deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide met for 45 minutes in his Washington hotel suite with TIME's Amy Wilentz, author of The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier. Excerpts from the interview...
...have no doubt that, even in exile, I am President of Haiti, and that I will be reinstalled in my rightful place, rightful because that is where the Haitian people want me to be -- that is where they voted me to be . . . and the world community is simply reinforcing their will...
Councillor Edward N. Cyr also spoke out strongly for the initiative supporting the Haitian people. "There are those who say that an issue such as this one doesn't have a place in Cambridge City Hall," he said. "To those who say these issues belong elsewhere, I say nonsense, these issues belong everywhere...
...Cambridge City Council has a long history of involvement in Haitian affairs...
...city's Haitian population of about 10,000 owns its own taxicab company and dominates a number of local parishes. Last year, the City Council voted to make Port-Au-Prince one of its sister cities. And last March, a month after Aristide was elected, the city sent a goodwill delegation to tour the small Caribbean country...