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...cause of Rosenfeld's death was arrhythmia, an irregular heartbeat, according to the Business School statement...
...forces are now billeted with Haitian troops and may start sharing patrols with them. The Americans were to begin collecting ammunition from the Haitian army and have started addressing the problem of the irregular attaches the army used as neighborhood enforcers. To encourage them to give up their guns, the U.S. will pay the attaches $50 for each weapon turned in. One American official characterizes this process of remaking the military as "arms control, not disarmament...
Shotgun-toting attaches, the irregular ruffians who back up the military, boasted that they would fend off any foreign invasion. "We turned their boat back once, and we will turn them back again," claimed a gunman. "When the Americans land, we will be issued grenades and M1s. We are supposed to start firing right away to keep control of the population." He said his superiors had warned that if a U.S. invasion succeeds, "they will make certain the attaches get no jobs and don't eat" -- an effective threat in a country where only the luckiest have work or regular...
...Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, the army strongman blocking the return of democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, cavalierly engineered the installation of an 81-year-old crony as the military's handpicked President, in direct challenge to the U.S. A minority of right-wing legislators, including eight elevated after irregular elections organized by the military last year, declared that under the constitution, Aristide's long absence left them no choice but to appoint a successor. As a 21-gun salute boomed over the capital, Supreme Court Justice Emile Jonassaint was sworn in, in a technical coup intended to prevent Aristide...
...Johns Hopkins Oncology Center have shown that a cell must sustain damage to at least three tumor-suppressor genes and one oncogene. The first mutation spurs the growth of the cell, triggering the formation of a benign polyp. Later changes cause the polyp to expand and become increasingly irregular in shape. By the time a cell in this growing mass suffers a final, fateful hit to its DNA, many decades may have gone...