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...military's backing for the constitutional process was anything but certain when Lafontant initiated his coup. The swaggering ex-Interior Minister had defiantly returned from five years of exile in July, but the army had failed to act on a warrant for his arrest, even after he declared that Aristide would never take office as President. The defeat of the takeover attempt apparently owes a great deal to U.S. diplomacy. Ambassador Alvin Adams and other officials have spent months trying to convince the military that staying out of politics is in its best interest. When the soldiers heeded the advice...
...neighboring Latvia, special black beret units from the Interior Ministry mounted a similar show of force two weeks ago, causing fear that presidential rule would soon follow. "This invasion," declared the parliament in Riga, "is only a pretext for starting a large-scale attack on the democratic institutions of Latvia." A contingent of Baltic lawmakers gathered for a regional conference in Finland went even further. Echoing the warning of Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze when he abruptly resigned in protest last month, they charged that Moscow's display of the iron fist signaled "the restoration of the power of dictatorship...
...dispute over Yosemite's profits throws a spotlight on a problem all too common in the biggest national parks. The Park Service has been lax in monitoring the concessioner contracts and ensuring that the government gets a fair share of the income. According to an Interior Department report, the concessioners reaped revenues of $500 million in 1988 but paid the government only $12.5 million in franchise fees. Environmentalists view the sale of the Yosemite company as an opportunity to revamp the process and shift the management philosophy of the parks away from excessive commercialism. "The parks should be the environmental...
...Interior Minister Aryeh Deri counters that only 5% are non-Jews. Angry immigrants warn that any slowdown in approving visas could cost lives. "Jews must get out quickly," says Emi Spielman, who arrived from Chernovtsy two weeks ago. The 60-year-old cobbler is still recovering from a skin graft he needed after an anti-Semitic gang burst into his house in the Soviet Union last April, pinned him down and burned his stomach with a hot iron...
Elsewhere, the outlook was far from hopeful. General Mikhail Moiseyev, Chief of the Soviet General Staff, pledged last week that "not a single additional soldier" would be sent to the breakaway Baltic states, but that did not stop tensions from mounting in the region. Interior Ministry special forces seized Latvia's largest printing plant and brought publication of major newspapers in the republic to a virtual halt. Moscow officials said the raid in Riga was to recover Communist Party property, which was allegedly seized illegally by the republican government. In neighboring Lithuania, Interior Ministry troops took control of party headquarters...