Word: haitian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Washington -- Although they wonUt say so publicly, some Clinton Administration officials are convinced -- along with Jesse Helms -- that exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide did in fact order the 1991 murder of Roger Lafontant, a thuggish Duvalier militia leader. One senior policymaker says the murder allegation was mentioned in the State Department human-rights report on Haiti "because we believe it to be true." However, even these officials support the reinstatement of Aristide as Haiti's President, believing the continued rule of the Haitian military is a far more terrible prospect...
...major reason for Clinton's promise to restore democracy in Haiti is the intensely negative reaction that most Americans direct toward immigration--and especially toward the huddled masses of Haitian refugees. Perhaps the most conspicuous sign of the influence public opinion wielded was the presence of reporters and camera operators at the first landing of Navy SEALs on the Somali shore. Either the brass or the Bush Administration--it's still not clear which--must have considered good p.r. as important as the integrity of the operation...
...state Department's Special Envoy to Haiti, Lawrence A. Pezzullo, yesterday told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee that the Haitian military may be behind reports of mass death in an effort to discredit sanctions...
Washington's continued willingness to negotiate with Haiti's military leaders stuns Aristide supporters. "Apparently," marvels Robert White, a former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador and an unpaid adviser to Aristide, "nothing will shake the touching faith the Clinton Administration has in the Haitian military's bona fides...
...will revisit that decision only if harm comes to any of the thousand or so Americans still in Haiti. "We know that," says an adviser to Francois, "and that's why our No. 1 priority is to protect the Americans here." The military is concentrating now on its Haitian solution to sideline Aristide permanently while keeping U.S. troops at bay. To effect that, they are relying on the advice of some players used by past U.S. administrations...