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After equivocating about whether to stay on or step down as President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide confirmed his intention to leave office at the end of his five-year term in February 1996. Presidential elections are set for Dec. 17. Relations with the U.S. turned increasingly sour as some 1,100 Haitian boat people were repatriated by the Coast Guard last week, more than the total number returned to Haiti in the past 10 months. Aristide, who has never agreed to forced repatriation, argues that the resurgence of boat people is the result of economic hardship, which...
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED. By JEAN-BERT-RAND ARISTIDE, 42, former priest and current President of Haiti; in Port au Prince. Although Aristide refused to name his fiancee, sources close to him identified her as MILDRED TROUILLET, a presidential legal counselor...
...During the '80s, Harvard divested in South Africa and apartheid. Now, there is a growing class divide at home," said Jean Alonso '59, a member of Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni for Affordable Housing (HARAAH). The vigil, which was sponsored by a coalition of student, alumni and community groups, was the first of two demonstrations planned for December. A second vigil will be held at Holyoke Center next week...
...kind of bad star trip tabloid journalism has made all too familiar to modern audiences. The trouble for him is that the founding of the Betty Ford Clinic is over a century in the future. The trouble for us is that The Plainsman, in which Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur played these figures in accordance with the conventions of their time--as protagonists in something pretty close to a screwball comedy--is 60 years in the past. In other words Wild Bill was born too soon for professional help, and we, it seems, were born too late for the more...
...history, the French general charged with U.N. peacekeeping in Sarajevo was ordered back to Paris today after having condemned the Dayton peace agreement. "I refuse to have my soldiers condemned to watch an exodus of Serbs who will burn their houses before leaving," a French newspaper quoted General Jean-Rene Bachelet as having said over the weekend. Bachelet reportedly added that the peace pact, which puts the divided city under control of the Muslim-Croat federation, would force the Serbs of Sarajevo to choose between "the suitcase or the coffin." The French Defense Minister, who ordered Bachelet home, said...