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...strategy of the Haitian people is more peaceful: we are looking toward economic boycotts, diplomatic boycotts...
Last week, after an old-fashioned coup ousted Haitian President Jean- Bertrand Aristide, the entire western hemisphere focused its outrage on the brazen military bosses in Port-au-Prince. The Americas were not prepared to let Haiti's military men get away with it. Their takeover, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said bluntly, "will not succeed...
After rampaging Haitian soldiers opened fire on street crowds and threatened to kill Aristide, a 38-year-old priest, Venezuela's President Carlos Andres Perez sent a plane to fly him to safety. Perez offered Aristide refuge in Caracas and said his country would be ready to take part in "the severest of actions" to re-establish a legitimate government in Haiti...
...Washington, George Bush judged the Haitian coup a throwback to the violent old days and a violation of the rules he envisions for a new world order. "I'm very worried about it," he said. "Here's a whole hemisphere that's moving the democratic way, and along comes Haiti now, overthrowing an elected government." When the old Stalinists made their power play in Moscow two months ago, Bush observed that "coups can fail." He intends to ensure the same outcome this time...
...part of the pressure on the Haitian junta, there is talk of a possible multilateral OAS military operation to put Aristide back in charge. The ousted Haitian President says he does not favor it, but some countries are not feeling constrained. Venezuela apparently meant what it said about taking the "most severe measures." General Fernando Ochoa Antich, the Venezuelan Defense Minister, announced after the OAS meeting that he had been ordered to prepare for possible multilateral action in Haiti. "The armed forces," he said, "are right now carrying out the planning of a possible regional military operation." President Perez promised...