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...soldier and a Haitian civilian were killed in an exchange of gunfire at a checkpoint in the Haitian village of Gonaives this morning. Another soldier was also injured when a pickup truck rammed into the checkpoint and the passenger came out shooting. U.S. troops killed the attacker. Although the incident appears isolated, TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson says, it has ended a "long string of good luck" in the U.S. peacekeeping operation. "There's been a sense of, how long can this last? But it looks like the American military has responded quite forcefully."U.S. troops will transfer authority...
Faced with 4,400 Haitians living at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the U.S. government today said that any of those refugees who agree by Jan. 5 to return home will get $80 and job opportunities. Those who turn down the offer will be forced to return without the benefits. Most of the remaining Guantanamo refugees -- there were as many as 20,000 before the Haitian military leadership abandoned their posts in September -- are seeking resettlement...
Triantafillou suggested that Healy should meet with the city's Haitian and Latino commissions to review job opportunities in city government
...older ethnic groups are increasingly supplemented by Haitian, Brazilian and Portuguese communities...
...bustle returning to the streets owes much of its energy to the lingering euphoria of Aristide's return. When U.S. soldiers chaperoned the President home seven weeks ago, the big question was whether he was up to the job. By most accounts, Haitian and American, Aristide appears a transformed man. Gone is the leftist firebrand who coyly refused to discipline the mob that brought him to power. Gone too is the self-righteous, mercurial contrarian of Washington exile. In their place is a man whom experience has imbued with wisdom, a newfound respect for dialogue and a deft skill...