Word: haitianize
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...their invasion stations off the shores of Haiti, and the President faced the moment when he would have to issue the order for U.S. troops to go in shooting, a tense weekend of negotiations was devoted to the possibility that strongman Raoul Cedras and the rest of the ruling Haitian military clique had finally got the message and were ready to quit. At the 11th hour, the President proved willing to talk...
...less than clear. But in a crucial sense, the conditions of the ruling gang's departure would not make much difference. One way or another, under fire or in a friendly takeover, with Cedras in power or in exile, American troops were on their way in. Sweeping aside the Haitian army was the least difficult, least important part of their mission. Ahead loomed the far tougher job of imposing and keeping order in a country ripe for mayhem, then laying the ground for a self- sustaining democracy to take root in a land that for centuries has known + little...
Suddenly came the White House announcement hardly anyone expected: Carter, Powell and Nunn were going to Port-au-Prince to make one last try at persuading the three top Haitian leaders to take the money and run. Literally take the money and run. The delegation was authorized to discuss just one thing with the Cedras crowd: how they would pack up to leave. U.S. officials denied they were offering any extra cash to the clique, but the three could in effect collect their own money -- the substantial wealth they are believed to have stashed abroad. And Washington would be happy...
...there were some interesting aspects to the offers. A common theme was that the Haitian leaders wanted to leave with "dignity." Another key ingredient was Carter, whom Cedras had come to know under what would seem like unpromising circumstances: the former President was one of the international monitors observing the 1990 Haitian elections that Cedras' eventual foe Jean- Bertrand Aristide won with almost 70% of the vote in the only genuinely free balloting Haiti has ever known. If the dictators were going to bail out, they wanted to say yes to a respected statesman...
...called Rosalynn and she said 'Jimmy, you go talk to Cedras' wife...Mrs. Cedras was impressive, powerful and forceful. And attractive. She was him and very attractive." Jimmy Carter, describing a meeting with Haitian General Cedras' wife...