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...Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is trying to allay international fears about his recent uneven behavior with a promise that he will abide by elections to choose his successor. "I am leaving on Feb. 7," Aristide was quoted as saying in an interview with Libete, an independent Creole-language weekly newspaper that he founded and directs. The Clinton Administration has been downplaying a spate of killings and riots in the last two weeks after Aristide made incendiary remarks about political opponents and elites. TIME's Tammerlin Drummond reports that the timing couldn't have been worse for Clinton: "Haiti...
Presidents from the following organizations have endorsed the petition: Harvard African Students Association, Asian American Association, Black Students Association, Caribbean Club, Chinese Student Association, Cubans-American undergraduate Student Association, Fuerza Quisqueyans, Haitian Alliance, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, Hong Kong Club, Irish Cultural and Historical Society, Korean-Americans for Culture and Community, Korean Student Association, Harvard Phillipine Forum, RAZA, Singapore and Malaysia Association, South Asian Association and the Taiwanese Cultural Society...
...PREDICTIONS WERE STARK AND frightening. Opponents of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide foresaw serious consequences if the radical priest, ousted in a September 1991 coup d'etat, ever returned to power: rivers of blood would flow through the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and dozens of the regime's opponents would perish in barbarous "necklaces" of burning tires. The poverty-stricken nation would become a Marxist enclave and an enemy of the U.S. So how to explain that a year after Aristide and the country's first democratically elected government were returned to power...
...with the constitution, which decrees a single-term presidency of five years, the immensely popular Aristide must step down after his replacement is selected in December elections. Two months later, the remaining 7,000 U.N. troops will phase out, leaving the preservation of law and order to a fledgling Haitian police force. Not long after, the remainder of the $1.2 billion in international aid that has sustained Haiti during the year since Aristide's return will begin to run out. Will Haiti be able to manage a peaceful succession and strike...
...York City schools have experienced a 49% increase in non-English-speaking immigrants in six years. Besides Spanish, classes are now taught in Chinese, Haitian Creole, Russian, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, Polish, Bengali and French. A few schools offer a full program in the student's native language, but most give at best an hour of native-language assistance, along with an hour of instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL). At Daniel Carter Beard Junior High in the borough of Queens, teacher Michael Cao faces a daunting task. His seventh-graders, most of whom speak little or no English...