Word: haitians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...control of the panel moves from the courtly, bland and ineffectual Democrat Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island to the reactionary Helms, who promises to let few Administration positions go unquestioned. Helms has always been a bomb thrower, unafraid of blowing up reputations abroad and at home. He likened Haitian leader Jean- Bertrand Aristide to Adolf Hitler. He still refers to the world's most populous country as "Red" China. He stuck up for the architects of apartheid over the black majority in South Africa and once accused Reagan-era Secretary of State George Shultz of "playing footsie with the communists...
...White House says 6,000 of the 15,000 or so troops in Haiti will return by Dec. 1, and 7,800 of 29,000-member U.S. force in Kuwait will fly back by Dec. 22. Withdrawing the rest depends on the success of the missions to support Haitian democratic reform and contain Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf. TIME Pentagon correspondentMark Thompsonnotes the U.S. commander in Haiti, Gen. Hugh Shelton, mentioned last week that 9,000 troops there would come home -- so, commitment-wise, "he was more cutting edge than the White House...