Word: haitian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flight shutdown was the latest move designed to further pressure the military leaders who ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Earlier in the week the Clinton Administration widened the freeze on Haitian financial assets in the U.S. to include not just the military, but all citizens. Meanwhile, reports circulated that the U.S. was offering big cash for Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and his cronies to simply leave the country. The State Department would neither confirm nor deny the rumors, but they clearly were sowing seeds of doubt among the military rank and file about whether their officers would still be around...
...divide-and-conquer tactics have affected the military leaders too. According to sources close to the ruling clique, relations between Cedras and police chief Michel Francois are increasingly strained. "A few weeks ago I would have said the chances of the military leaving voluntarily were nil," says a Haitian political analyst, "but now the chances of them leaving are increasing." Concerned about morale, Cedras made an impromptu tour of military posts around the country, while Haitian officers worked the country's dilapidated phone system, spreading the "news" that the Pentagon, CIA and supporters in the U.S. Senate would force Clinton...
...Haitian military police fired Wednesday on a 60-foot sailboat full of refugees trying to take to sea, setting off a panic in which at least 30 people were drowned. Witnesses offered TIME correspondent Edward J. Barnes the first verified report that Haitian authorities have fired on refugees attempting to flee. At about 1 a.m., Barnes was told, a Haitian police launch approached the ship at Nan L'Etat, off Haiti's southern coast, surprising a boatload of refugees drawn from about 400 waiting in surrounding coves and hillsides for passage to America. "At first, local villagers say, the boat...
...Guard patrols intercepted at least 20 more refugee boats fleeing Haiti, adding about 400 asylum-seekers to yesterday's one-day record of 1,500. The surging response prompted Defense Secretary William Perry to weigh sending them to the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba -- and sparked rumors in Haitian and U.S. political circles that invasion is imminent. But TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson doubts it: Haitian strongman Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras is sending signals that he might step down in August, a major aim of the Clinton Administration...
...first Haitian boat people were processed aboard a U.S. Navy ship in Kingston, Jamaica, to see if they qualified for asylum in the U.S. Six of 35 petitioners, who were picked up from three small boats, made the cut; the rest will be sent back...