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...Clinton Administration is frantically looking for countries willing to provide "safe havens" for HAITIAN REFUGEES now that Panama has reneged on an agreement to do so. Some refugees might end up traveling farther than they initially bargained for: Washington has approached several nations in West Africa, including French-speaking Benin and Senegal, about harboring Haitians. Administration officials say the Caribbean islands of Antigua, Grenada and Dominica have agreed "in principle" to set up safe havens...
...overthrown nearly three years ago. Haiti's military "hardly warrants the name," a Pentagon planner says; its 7,500 troops are ill-trained and poorly equipped, and they are expected to offer little overt resistance. In all likelihood U.S. forces would quickly take control of the handful of Haitian armored vehicles, planes, boats and guns. "The Haitians will be lucky to get 1,000 or 1,500 troops to respond," predicts Georges Fauriol, a Haitian expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Of greater concern inside the Pentagon is the possibility that Haitian soldiers would turn...
...switch, so far at least, improved the situation in Haiti. Refugees were continuing to flee at the rate of 2,000 a day. Ad-hoc refugee camps at Guantanamo naval base and elsewhere were jammed to capacity, and Coast Guard cutters were nearly overwhelmed. In the Haitian countryside, many villages are being depopulated by the exodus; once bustling main streets are now virtually deserted, and more homes seem to be boarded up than inhabited...
Amid all this, the Haitian military seems to have embraced a surreal attitude halfway between apathy and stubborn denial. On Thursday morning, 200 green-uniformed soldiers, some carrying bazookas, marched through downtown Port-au-Prince in a show of force, occasionally breaking into a spirited goose step. On Friday, top military officials gathered in the parking lot next to the General Quarters to celebrate Cedras' 45th birthday. On the menu: croissants, Teem and sugary schadec juice, made with Haitian grapefruits...
Oftentimes in this country, national political leaders are harangued for back-pedaling on promises and, notoriously, saying what they think the American public wants to hear. Consider for a moment popular reaction to President Clinton's ever-tottering policy toward Haitian refugees. Along those same lines, think about media response to Ross Perot's get-tough, populist stance toward America's "less than fair" trading partners abroad. All this seems mundane, typical to politics-as-usual...