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...proved adept at manhunts: it failed to arrest Aidid or kill Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and spent two frustrating weeks before it arrested Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said two weeks ago that the apprehension of Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and the Haitian junta is a "dead certainty," but such comments make Pentagon officials very nervous...
President Clinton has authorized a last-minute, high-level delegation led by former President Jimmy Carter to Port-au-Prince to coax the Haitian leaders out without bloodshed. They're expected to leave within 24 hours, and Clinton pledged to hold the invasion at least until his envoys begin their return trip. Flanking Carter are retired Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Colin Powell and Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn. Earlier, Clinton met with ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who pledged amnesty to opponents once he is restored. The surprise White House announcement capped a day of apparent...
...Prince, while 1,800 Marines from a "WASP" amphibious assault ship would secure Haiti's north. And those multinational forces? Caribbeans and others won't move in until everything's already peaceful: "This is an all-American show in the opening hours and the opening days," Thompson says.THE HAITIAN BATTLE PLAN? Haiti's elite troops aren't exactly planning a mano-a-mano confrontation: TIME's Allis reports that many have already changed into their civvies and gone home -- with weapons. The so-called "evaporation defense," which the junta threatened weeks ago, would leave 7,500 Haitian soldiers in hiding...
...President's house ever be safe? Less than a week after a plane crashed onto the White House lawn, three fire trucks raced to the mansion early this afternoon to investigate smoke in the West Wing, safely away from the room where President Clinton was meeting with exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Verdict: "A light fixture shorted out, and there was a strong odor," said press secretary Dee Dee Myers...
...President Clinton's scheduled 9 p.m. EDT address to make his case for a Haiti invasion, he activated 1,600 military reservists. Excerpts from Clinton's remarks, released late this afternoon as two U.S. aircraft carriers swept toward the island nation's coastline, contain a final warning to the Haitian military leadership: "Your time is up. Leave now or we will force you from power." Haiti's ruling triumvirate sent mixed signals: Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, the capo, told CBS News he was prepared to leave "under certain conditions" but that he had flatly rejected a reported U.S. offer...