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Clearly, the United States government does not make the respect for the dignity of human life a matter of policy--demonstrated foremost by the refusal to accept Haitian refugees while moralizing about ethnic cleansing. Because the United States uses the "moral" excuse inconsistently, we believe that respect for human life is not the central motive behind military intervention. This leads us to believe there are other, yet unexplored solutions to these problems...
...make the case that Clinton conducts a feckless foreign policy. As a candidate, Clinton promised he would send a peace envoy to Northern Ireland; renew most-favored-nation trading status for China only if Beijing met tough conditions on human rights; and reverse the practice of sending back all Haitian boat people, including refugees entitled to asylum. He has bent or broken all three vows...
...warning signs that he was a liberal existed even during the campaign, in the form of a thousand quiet promises made to liberal interest groups: promises to increase AIDS research funding, to end the military ban on homosexuals, to guarantee a woman's right to choose abortion, to welcome Haitian refugees and to penalize China for its human rights violations...
Aristide's gesture came amid a flurry of other diplomatic activity. The Clinton Administration let it be known that the U.S. might send a contingent of military advisers to help rebuild the impoverished nation following Aristide's return. The United Nations' special envoy for Haitian affairs, Argentine Dante Caputo, arrived in Port-au-Prince to serve as a mediator in the expected negotiations. But army commanders declined to meet with him, flatly rejecting the amnesty offer...
CAMPUS ACTIVISTS ARE HELPING PLAN A "NATIONAL DAY OF OUTRAGE" on April 19 that will include acts of civil disobedience against Immigration and Naturalization Service offices. It will be a show of support for HIV-infected Haitian refugees who are being barred from entering the U.S. In a preliminary protest last week, about 50 students at New York University law school began their leg of a relay fast that started at Yale...