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...Pentagon disclosure Thursday that 27 political opponents ofHaitian President Jean-Betrand Aristidemay be targeted for assassination has infuriated the White House and State Department,TIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothreports. "It's Defense acting as a renegade department," a senior State official said after getting a phone call from a "livid" White House this morning. Booth says U.S. officials fear the release of such lists, compiled with dubious information, only undercut U.S. efforts in Haiti. Besides, she adds, such "hit lists" already abound in Haiti: "We're not going down these lists and warning people," a U.S. diplomat in Port...
...military mission there a success. "We celebrate the restoration of democracy to your country," Clinton told the crowd, whose front ranks consisted of children who giggled at several presidential attempts at Creole. Right on cue, as Clinton spoke, a white dove landed on the podium between him andHaitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. (Aristide's staff had released a whole flock of his trademark peace symbols in the yard.) As Clinton declared that the six-month U.S. mission had been accomplished "on schedule and with remarkable success," U.S. and U.N. flags were exchanged to mark the transition to a force...
...senior Clinton Administration official tellsTIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Booththat the U.S. has "serious concern" thatHaitian President Jean-Bertrande Aristide's interior minister, Mondesdir Beaubrun, may have been involved in the assassination of Mireille Durocher Bertin , a political opponent of the president, on Tuesday. "There are some real thugs still involved as Aristide supporters on the left and they're settling accounts from the past," the official said. The matter has taken on political urgency because President Clinton plans to visit Port-au-Prince on Friday -- the first U.S. president to do so in 60 years. Booth reports that...
Fourteen FBI agents arrived inHaitithis morning and rushed to a Port-au-Prince boulevard where an outspoken political opponent of President Jean Bertrand Aristide was machine-gunned to death yesterday. The reason for the haste: President Clinton is due to arrive Friday to declare Haiti safe enough for U.S. troops to hand over security duties to a multinational U.N. force. Aristide asked the FBI to investigate the assassination of ultranationalist Mireille Durocher Bertin. A Haitian government source today told TIME contributor Bernard Diederich that Aristide had advance warning of the killing, and offered Bertin protection. Haitian officials insist that...
...others. The U.N. Security Council, meanwhile, said it might send troops to Burundi if the situation deteriorates and threatened extremists on both sides with a war crimes tribunal for committing atrocities. "I don't think the international community can afford anothersituation like there was in Rwanda," said French Ambassador Jean-Bernard Merimee. "It would be unthinkable...