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...sitting in the dark seems painfully thin, but he has gained 25 lbs. since Haitian police detained him for nine days last March. They stomped on his back, beat him with batons, kicked him with their boots. He survived on a liquid diet: the urine of his captors. He now lives on the run in Port-au- Prince, hiding with friends and begging for food...
More and more, the face-off between Haiti's military rulers and the U.S. White House looks like an elaborate game of chicken. From the American side comes a steady escalation of military and political pressures designed to send Haitian Army Chief Raoul Cedras and his cronies this message: We don't want to invade Haiti, but if that's the only way to get rid of you, we will. From Cedras and company comes a series of nose-thumbing moves adding up to this reply: Come on -- we dare you. But the game has not reached the point...
According to military sources, the Haitian leaders have virtually no plan for defending themselves from an invasion. Some soldiers have openly admitted their intention to drop their weapons at the first sign of trouble. Indeed, when an American helicopter recently flew over the town of Jeremie on surveillance, the local army unit thought the invasion had begun and simply ran away. The paramilitary units that aid the army in terrorizing ordinary Haitians have announced that their response to an invasion will be to "evaporate" into the civilian population and begin a guerrilla war. The clandestine campaign, they say, will involve...
Despite indications that Haitian resistance would be negligible, Clinton's aides insist that the President still has not made up his mind about an invasion. Yet by rattling the saber so loudly last week, Clinton has left himself little alternative but to invade. If he does nothing, he risks looking even weaker and more indecisive than he already appears. And that is a scenario the Administration relishes even less than the prospect of military action...
...President once again showed a talent for thoughtful speeches to foreign parliaments and Reaganesque photo ops, he could never quite get Americans' minds -- or his own mind -- off his manifold problems elsewhere. In U.S. headlines and on TV newscasts, his efforts were upstaged by the collapse of his latest Haitian refugee policy. Then on Saturday he was forced to grapple at a press conference with the implications of the death of North Korean President Kim Il Sung...