Word: haitianize
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...music with a voodoo beat. Through the hours of darkness cars rumble up to the Normandie Restaurant and the political offices next door. Scores of "attaches," the heavily armed civilian auxiliaries to the police, receive their orders and roar away on the violent and bloody missions that keep the Haitian military regime in power...
...Aristide's character and ability, reinforced last week when a senior CIA official, at Helms' urging, briefed 13 Senators on the substance of the charges. Senate Republican leader Bob Dole left the secret meeting saying he had found it "very disturbing." Aristide's counsel, Michael Barnes, denied that the Haitian President had ever been treated for any mental problems or authorized the killing of any political opponents. In fact, there is little doubt that on at least one occasion Aristide did encourage necklacing. But even if he was not a full-time democrat, Haiti's overall human-rights record improved...
...functioning democracy is required to keep Haitians at home, establishing one may be beyond U.S. means. The Marines could, in theory, invade the island, arrest the military and police chiefs, and return Aristide to office. The last time the Marines did something like that, back in 1915, they stayed for almost two decades and achieved very little in the way of nation building. Aristide, who knows how sour the word Marine is on Haitian tongues, has not asked for an invasion. Still, the troops could...
Signals out of the White House indicate that in Haiti as in Somalia, Clinton prefers a political settlement to a military one.If the Haitian military and civilian elite cannot be broken, they will have to be drawn into a deal. So when economic sanctions begin to squeeze, the U.S. is bound to increase its pressure on Aristide to compromise and make the coup leaders an offer...
Even now, with all hell breaking loose in Haiti, Bill Clinton won't relax his draconian refugee policy. Denying political asylum to large numbers of poor black Haitians "is what all this was about in the first place," says U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright -- and it still is. The Administration's sweet talk about restoring democracy in Haiti is merely tactical, a reflection of the assumption that those who enjoy liberty will stay put. Meanwhile on the ground, the situation worsens daily. "Anyone can be killed at any time," says Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the exiled President, and late-night disappearances...