Word: haitian
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...trio, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell. Still, the former president is less than popular in Haiti, where many resent the fact that he allowed the dictators to remain in power for a month, then slip into exile. Both supporters of Haitian President Jean-Bertrande Aristide and wealthy backers of the former military regime now fear that mobs may turn on them when U.S. forces hand over security duty to U.N. troops at the end of March. Carter, Powell and Nunn hope instead to keep the democratic process on track...
Robinson reminded the audience of Haitian involvement in the American Revolution when Haitians gave their lives to help achieve American freedom...
Robinson is director of the African and Caribbean lobbying group, Trans Africa. He fasted for 27 days to protest president Clinton's refusal to allow Haitian refugees into the United States last year...
...once Black and white ethnic neighborhood took on a sizable number of Haitian, Hispanic and Asian immigrants, residents...
...American Special Forces soldier was killed by a former Haitian army officer at a road checkpoint outside the Haitian coastal town of Gonaives, the first hostile casualty since 21,000 U.S. troops arrived in the country last September. Another U.S. soldier was wounded in the shootout before the gunman was shot and killed...