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...shooting death of a leading Haitian dissident last night jolted Haiti back to the forefront of U.S. and international agendas. The Rev. Jean-Marie Vincent -- a close friend of Jean-Bertrand Aristide who threw his body in front of machete-wielding attackers in 1989 to protect the now exiled president -- was shot and killed by gunmen suspected of being part of the military government. There was no indication why Vincent was slain. He was a peasant-rights movement leader, but he had made no political appearances since Aristide's 1991 ouster. In Washington, State Department spokesman Mike McCurry denounced...
...shores. The White House rebuffed the advice. Meanwhile, the U.S. military prepared to move 5,000 American personnel out of the Guantanamo Bay Navy base so they could move thousands of Cubans in for indefinite detention. Defense Secretary William Perry said the base, which already houses 14,000 Haitian refugees, will add facilities for 10,000 more people by week's end and that many more by early September. A new tack in the US's so-far shaky deterrence effort: Cubans will be encouraged to apply for U.S. visas from Havana. "These are all short-term solutions...
Perry also argued that the Administration should allow more time for sanctions, threats and what Pentagon officials coyly called "inducements" to persuade the Haitian military leaders that they have to leave. While the officials insisted cash payoffs are not on the table, there has been back-room talk of providing the Haitian military leaders with safe passage to comfortable lives in exile...
...news conference Wednesday night, the President said the U.N. action signaled that "we should keep on the table the option of forcibly removing the dictators who have usurped power in Haiti." He went on to define the national interest in terms of a million Haitian Americans living in the U.S. and "an interest in stabilizing those democracies that are in our hemisphere." By any traditional measure, such interests are not vital to national security, and Americans are -- so far -- largely unconvinced. A TIME/ CNN poll last week asked if the U.S. should send troops to oust Haiti's military rulers...
...well stocked. Cement supplies began to run out and so did Kellogg's Corn Flakes, but well-to-do supporters of the junta boasted they could outlast Clinton. Local supermarket owners said they had enough stock in warehouses for at least three months. "The prices are higher," says a Haitian executive, "but I can still get everything I need." (Last week, however, gasoline prices shot up abruptly...