Word: haitians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chair South Asian Association Susan S. Kim '96 President Korean Students Association Jean M. Ou '95 Co-President Chinese Students Association Alex Cho '96 Co-President Asian American Association Julissa Reynoso '97 President Fuerza Quisqueyana Alison Moore '97 Vice President Black Students Association Laurent Alfred '96 Political Action Chair Haitian Alliance Nisha Hitchman '97 Dax Bayard Co-Chairs Caribbean Club Pedro Orozco '96 Secretary RAZA Radi Annab '95 President Society of Arab Students
Jean-Bertrand Aristide's presidential palace was in a state of wild disarray all last week, though the Haitian government did manage to put on a fairly elegant reception for some 500 distinguished visitors and guests on the Saturday of Aristide's return -- a triumph all the more remarkable for the palace's lack of running water. The President's people had been especially nervous since a number of the invitees supported the 1991 coup d'etat against Aristide and were no doubt looking forward to a social debacle. But the Americans arrived with six portable toilets, and the Haitians...
...first few months in power. Schools languish in disrepair. Garbage is piled high around the capital, and the municipal dump is an unsightly waterfront horror that breeds disease. Roads are barely navigable; in some places, the potholes have grown so large and deep that they are known in Haitian Creole as tonmbo, or tombs. At midweek, gasoline had still not made it to the nation's pumps, and the stockpiled supplies of street dealers were dwindling. It was a characteristically Haitian irony that only when the embargo was over did the gas shortage begin...
...praisingU.S. troops' work in Haiti, adding that he'd send "the bulk" of military personnel home within months -- when United Nations peacekeepers take over. Still, Clinton said in a statement, he reserved the right to keep secret from Congress sensitive military moves in Haiti. Meanwhile in Port-au-Prince,Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristidereaffirmed his pledge to step down when his term expires next year...
...race issue is that it doesn't matter how hard you work as a person of color," added Ehrl D. LaFontant, a five-year resident and a Haitian immigrant. "The powers that be--the media--will bring you down for no reason whatever...