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...Limbe, a Haitian town of perhaps 20,000 on the road from Cap Haitien to Port-au-Prince, the chaotic interlude between the disintegration of the old order and the establishment of the new began last week with the spectacular helicopter landing of U.S. Marines. We heard stories of how townspeople began tentatively probing the extent of their new freedom. They dared to say the name Jean-Bertrand Aristide in public -- and were not beaten. Then, from hiding places under beds and inside suitcases, pictures of the exiled President emerged. Step by cautious step, people grew bolder. Friends formed groups...
...seconds it took to get outside, most of the police had run out the back, terrified of facing a fire fight like the one that had left 10 Haitian policemen dead in Cap Haitien three days before. I followed them and found eight hiding in other buildings of the compound. I told them to put their hands in the air. We were walking back to the main building when the Special Forces pushed in. It was over, and no one had died...
...case basis. The improvisational approach only seemed to force Washington into an ever deepening commitment. On Thursday Pentagon spokesman Dennis Boxx announced that rather than withdrawing American forces, the U.S. was actually increasing its troop presence. Together with the troops at sea, the total number serving in the Haitian campaign -- some 28,800 -- eclipses the 26,000 Americans who invaded Panama in 1989 and the 25,800 sent to Somalia. "I'm very concerned," a senior military officer said at week's end, "that the mission's creeping, and we don't even know...
When Evans Paul, the youthful mayor of Port-au-Prince who has been in hiding from the Haitian junta for the past three years, emerged to reclaim his office last Thursday, he brought along a kind of personal insurance policy: 40 American MPs and soldiers from the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. Under their watchful gaze, the man who is second in popularity to President Jean- Bertrand Aristide was able to deliver an emotional speech celebrating the end of military rule and admonishing his fellow Haitians to exercise patience, mercy and restraint. His only rhetorical barb was reserved...
Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and General Philippe Biamby, the two Haitian coup leaders left after police chief Michel Francois fled Monday night, wept at the funeral for 10 junta "attaches" killed Sept. 24 in a shootout with U.S. Marines. U.S. officials ignored the ceremony, while pro-democracy Haitians helped U.S. soldiers track down army-allied gunmen who had terrorized neighborhoods since the junta seized power in 1991. Francois, who engineered the coup but slipped away to a comfortable house in the neighboring Dominican Republic, left behind a letter that reproaches the other two capos for striking an agreement with former...