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...that only military pressure can break the Haitian stalemate, but a truly rigorous set of smarter sanctions should be tried first. These actions just might work...
...screws to the Dominican Republic. Any trade embargo, no matter how tough on paper, can't work if Santo Domingo's rulers continue winking at the cross-border smuggling that sustains the Haitian usurpers. Sugar exports to the U.S. account for most of the Dominican Republic's wealth, which isn't much. Serious sanctions would threaten an end to that trade if the Dominicans didn't close the border...
...Haiti's military, emboldened by their success at turning away the shipload of American military trainers aboard the Harlan County last October, believe that the U.S. lacks the guts for a sustained occupation. "It'd be just like Somalia," says a senior Haitian officer. "Clinton will run away when the first U.S. soldier is returned in a body bag." A military intervention, however, need not be open-ended. To limit the commitment, Clinton could embrace Canada's proposal to train expatriate Haitians to serve as the core of a force designed to protect the returned, legitimate government. Together with...
...Friday, at U.S. urging, the U.N. passed a resolution toughening the so far ineffective embargo on Haiti. Earlier in the week, President Clinton said he had not ruled out U.S. military intervention. Meanwhile, about 500 Haitian refugees who recently arrived in Florida will be allowed to remain in the U.S. while their cases are processed by immigration officials. Said a senior U.S. official: "Clearly, policy toward Haiti is in flux...
...Administration's tentative moves did not stop the three-week hunger strike by Randall Robinson, executive director of the lobbying group TransAfrica. Robinson was hospitalized for dehydration, but he vowed to continue until President Clinton agreed to give Haitian boat people hearings before forcibly repatriating them. By week's end Clinton was considering altering his repatriation policy...