Word: haitian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adjaffi plays the Square with the hope of one day making it big, but he says he doesn't care about earning a lot of money. The son of wealthy Haitian nationals, he's already been rich. Instead, Adjaffi says, he hopes to leave his audiences with a message about peace...
...musician began singing in a Haitian church when he was five years old. His parents emigrated to Europe in 1978 to escape political turmoil. After several years in Belgium, France and Germany, Adjaffi came to Cambridge...
PORT-AU-PRINCE: Haitians are openly skeptical about the ability of U.N. forces to deal with the ruthless gunmen who oppose the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, which is scheduled for Oct. 30. As 26 Americans and five Canadians, the first of 1,600 U.N. troops and police, arrived in the capital, Haitian hard-liners, led by the police chief, Lieut. Colonel Joseph Michel Francois, have launched a campaign to sabotage the international effort. More than 100 Aristide supporters have been killed by thugs since July 3. Said one Haitian: "Those blue berets look like powder puffs...
American Red Cross disaster service workersarrived at the fire around midnight and began a'round-the-clock operation to provide emergencyservices for the families who lost their homes.Most of the residents were low-income Haitian andHispanic families...
Philippe Genues, an engineer and one of the organizers of the event, organized by the Boston-based Haitian Democratic Resistance, said Haiti needs the world's assistance. "Haitians in the world are all demonstrating today," Genues said. "We're putting pressure on the international community...