Word: haitian
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WASHINGTON -- Haitian Lieut. General RAOUL CEDRAS has sent word to U.S. military officials that if the U.S. tries to use force to restore ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide there would be "massive" civilian casualties. U.S. planners fear that Cedras might retreat to the hills and wage a guerrilla war that would erode the American willingness to stay...
...country's 7 million residents could have explained, the mathematics of the embargo are devastatingly simple. Gas that sells for $2 per gal. on the Dominican side of the border commands $7 on the Haitian side. Those numbers have fueled flourishing cross-border smuggling ever since the trade ban was placed on Haiti last October in hopes of forcing the defiant military to allow President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to return. Last week President Clinton's new envoy to Haiti, William Gray III, won a promise from the Dominican Republic's aging President Joaquin Balaguer to seal the border. But with...
...endear him to the President. But Hamilton "would bring some professionalism to the amateur hour around here," says a State Department official. "If we'd changed our refugee policy on Lee's watch, you can bet there would have been some interim way of dealing with the Haitian boat people before we got the new procedures in place. We wouldn't be turning people back and looking ridiculous. After all, the reason for our change is that those we've sent back so far are being brutalized when they're returned...
Retrofitting Haitian Policy...
...implement President Clinton's new Haitian refugee policy, the Pentagon announced it has chartered two Ukrainian vessels that will process the U.S.-asylum applications of Haitian boat people at sea. Pending the ships' deployment, though, the Administration returned home more than 1,000 Haitians...