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Word: haitian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...warning signs that he was a liberal existed even during the campaign, in the form of a thousand quiet promises made to liberal interest groups: promises to increase AIDS research funding, to end the military ban on homosexuals, to guarantee a woman's right to choose abortion, to welcome Haitian refugees and to penalize China for its human rights violations...

Author: By Jordan Schreiber, | Title: Shaping 'New Democratic' Illusions | 4/28/1993 | See Source »

Aristide's gesture came amid a flurry of other diplomatic activity. The Clinton Administration let it be known that the U.S. might send a contingent of military advisers to help rebuild the impoverished nation following Aristide's return. The United Nations' special envoy for Haitian affairs, Argentine Dante Caputo, arrived in Port-au-Prince to serve as a mediator in the expected negotiations. But army commanders declined to meet with him, flatly rejecting the amnesty offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aristide Offers to Deal | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

CAMPUS ACTIVISTS ARE HELPING PLAN A "NATIONAL DAY OF OUTRAGE" on April 19 that will include acts of civil disobedience against Immigration and Naturalization Service offices. It will be a show of support for HIV-infected Haitian refugees who are being barred from entering the U.S. In a preliminary protest last week, about 50 students at New York University law school began their leg of a relay fast that started at Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reading, Writing, 'Rithmetic, Rage | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

Graham and Parks houses the city's Haitian bilingual program, as well. "It's the only place where they can talk to [people] and teach them in their native language," Hudicourt-Barnes says. Hudicourt-Barnes, who teaches first through fourth graders in the bilingual program, said that Graham and Parks offers the only choice in terms of the language and that this is the motivation for many Creole-speaking parents...

Author: By Heather M. Leslie, | Title: Choosing Schools | 4/14/1993 | See Source »

...have recognized that the Haitian community sticks together," he said. "Everyone is in this together...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Students Rally to Support Haitians | 3/24/1993 | See Source »

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