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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moise and other Haitian and Caribbean students interviewed yesterday generally applauded the U.S. effort...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Invasion Hits Haitian Students Close to Home | 9/21/1994 | See Source »

...better alternative--the lesser of two evils," says Emmanuelle M. Fleurinor '97. Fleurinor, who was born in the U.S. and considers herself a Haitian-American, says ideally the military would have left the country voluntarily, but that option was not likely...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Invasion Hits Haitian Students Close to Home | 9/21/1994 | See Source »

President Clinton ordered more than 1,000 U.S. military police to prevent Haitian police and military officers from beating pro-democracy demonstrators in Port-au-Prince, but it was unclear whether the move was tough enough to scare the junta's overzealous cops into civil behavior. "The habits of violence will not be shed overnight," Clinton said of the beatings, which embarrassed the Administration just a day after Haiti's military rulers agreed to make nice with the U.S. Clinton made clear that U.S. forces in Haiti -- expected to number 8,500 by tonight -- would "work to moderate the conduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI . . . STOPPING THE HEAD BUSTING | 9/21/1994 | See Source »

...last-minute swerve away from a Haiti invasion isn't pleasing its chief beneficiary -- Jean-Bertrand Aristide. This morning the exiled Haitian President issued a terse statement that pointedly failed to mention the accord brokered Sunday by former President Jimmy Carter. Instead, he referred only to the 1993 Governors Island agreement that would have ousted the junta members who booted him two years earlier. Capitol Hill held no sympathy: "It's time for Jean-Bertrand Aristide to get real," a U.S. Representative said, voicing a common congressional sentiment. Carter didn't make things any easier for President Clinton. He said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI . . . ARISTIDE'S GRIPING, CARTER'S SNIPING | 9/20/1994 | See Source »

Aristide supporters in Port-au-Prince jeered at Haitian police, who fired tear gas and reportedly clubbed a man to death as U.S. troops looked on, under orders not to interfere. U.S. forces on the island, meanwhile, increased to 6,000, including about 1,800 Marines who moved ashore at Cap-Haitien in the north. BTW: A U.S. official confirmed to the Associated Press that American commandos had been in Haiti for weeks, set to kidnap Haiti's de facto ruler, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, during an invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN HAITI . . . CLASHES AS U.S. TROOPS WALK THE LINE | 9/20/1994 | See Source »

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