Word: haitianize
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...machine-gunned to death yesterday. The reason for the haste: President Clinton is due to arrive Friday to declare Haiti safe enough for U.S. troops to hand over security duties to a multinational U.N. force. Aristide asked the FBI to investigate the assassination of ultranationalist Mireille Durocher Bertin. A Haitian government source today told TIME contributor Bernard Diederich that Aristide had advance warning of the killing, and offered Bertin protection. Haitian officials insist that the opposition killed one of its own in order to embarrass Aristide and Clinton...
...interview withTIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothlast fall, Durocher Bertin -- a prominent supporter of the departed military junta -- repeatedly worried that she would be murdered after Aristide's return: "My life and my family will be in great danger.Bill Clinton will be held responsiblefor every life of every Haitian killed by Aristide's people on his return. I hold him responsible for mine...
...mayor also said he was concerned that theforeign language department does not offerlanguages like Arabic and Haitian-Creole. ManyCambridge families speak these languages at home,he said...
...most diverse of Cambridge's 13 neighborhoods, Area Four has the city's largest concentrations of Blacks and Hispanics. The neighborhood is a true polyglot; the language spoken on the street is more likely to be Haitian Creole, Spanish or Portuguese that English...
...hemisphere's poorest country. The task is hardly hopeless: TIME correspondent Tammerlane Drummond reports that recent international aid to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's new government already tops $1 billion -- more, per capita, than any other country in the world has received. Drummond, who recently visited the Haitian capital, says a virtual army of American small businessmen is already swarming Port-au- Prince looking for a piece of the action...