Word: haitianize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year ago today, the USS Harlan County, filled with American and Canadian troops, was not allowed to dock in Port au Prince, turned back by a group of Haitian thugs. President Clinton's Haiti policy was widely ridiculed and lay in tatters around...
...conceivable that Haiti can be transformed into a country where the domestic political will of the Haitian people could be legitimately translated into governance...
President Clinton has been uncharacteristically blunt in outlining the economics behind the mission to restore democracy. "The American people have already expended almost $200 million to support them [Haitian refugees], to maintain the economic embargo and the prospect of millions and millions more being spent every month for an indefinite period of time loom ahead unless...
...return to Haiti in grand style Saturday, with three planes stuffed with so many guests that the State Department is complaining. In addition to Secretary of State Warren Christopher, the party includes the Rev. Jesse Jackson, TransAfrica director Randall Robinson, the Congressional Black Caucus and a snowballing number of Haitian diaspora members...
...capos' wake, the police and armyhave become utterly demoralized and ceased to be a power in Haiti, TIME writerMarguerite Michaels reports from Port-au-Prince. "It's not a police force in anysense that we understand it," she says. Raymond Kelly, the former NYPD chiefnow helping to rebuild the Haitian force, said he was having trouble getting thecops onto the streets at all. Without Haitian security, U.S. forces are fearingthey may have to fire on looting pro-democracy Haitians if the returningPresident Jean Bertrand Aristide can't control his people. "So much depends onAristide, and there is so little trust...