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...wants. For instance, which hypothetical rooming group sounds more "diverse" to you, a triple with three Black students, or one with one Black student, one Asian student and one white student? Okay, what if I told you that the first hypothetical triple consisted of one American, one Haitian and one Nigerian, and the students in the second are all from New England and went to prep school? Not so simple anymore. The claim to diversity is up for grabs...
...Haitian Hand-Over
President Clinton traveled with U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince to oversee the transfer of authority for the country's security from American troops to a U.N. peacekeeping force. But what should have been a foreign-policy triumph for the Administration was marred by the assassination three days earlier of a leading opponent of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's--and suspicions that a Cabinet-level Haitian minister was linked...
White House staffers traveling with Clinton today downplayed the importance of allegations that Haitian Interior Minister Mondesdir Beaubrun was involved in the murder of an opposition leader this week . (Aristide said flatly that Beaubrun was innocent.) U.S. officials told TIME White House correspondentJames Carneythat they disclosed the charges in order to demonstrate that the U.S. government will not condone political retribution in Haiti. Even so, they took no chances on risky photo-ops today: "There will not be an encounter," a State Department official said curtly when asked if Clinton and the minister would cross paths. "They will not shake...
...settling accounts from the past," the official said. The matter has taken on political urgency because President Clinton plans to visit Port-au-Prince on Friday -- the first U.S. president to do so in 60 years. Booth reports that an FBI investigation has "apparently implicated" Beaubrun, whom the Haitian president had appointed over U.S. objections to pacify army supporters. But, the Administration official adds, "There is no reason to believe that Aristide is involved or knew about...