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History has a way of repeating itself. On Sunday, Jean Bertrand Aristide, the democratically elected president of Haiti, was deposed in the second coup of his political career. The future appears bleak. Despite Colin Powell’s assurance that they “want to put down their arms,” the rebels—led by death-squad veterans and former members of the brutal military government that ruled Haiti from 1991 to 1994—have yet to disarm. What brought Haiti to this tragic pass? Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) put the matter bluntly, asserting...
...loss of a mother's love - the movie ends in anarchy: Dr. T.'s musical plan is foiled, the kids run amok and a Rube Goldberg-style A bomb blows the whole place up. (By now Bart Collins has outdone Bart Simpson on the destructo scale.) Not since Jean Vigo's "Zero de Conduite" have filmmakers so fervently called for a revolt of the underage. Even the laconic Zabladowski falls under Bart's revolutionary spell. "People should always believe in kids," he says sagely. "They should even believe their lies...
...witnessing the coup d'etat machine in motion." YVON NEPTUNE, Prime Minister of Haiti, urging international help to put down the uprising that threatens to topple the regime of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide...
...airport and presidential palace, and national security consists of a few hundred guerrillas-along with a few thousand cops who belong to one of the Caribbean?s most threadbare police forces. ?This is not the way things were supposed to be once we were rid of Aristide,? said businessman Jean Robert, 57, as he helped clean up the police station looted by mobs in the capital?s Petion Ville district. ?I could go back and live in the U.S., but I?m staying, because we?ve got to change the way things are done here...
...Philippe was a day late. The Haitian rebel army leader had promised he?d arrive in the capital, Port-au-Prince, on Sunday, February 29-his 36th birthday-to force President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from office. But early that morning, Aristide-realizing that not only the international community but his own police forces had abandoned him-resigned and hopped on a plane to Africa where asylum awaited...