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...witnessing the coup d'?tat machine in motion." Yvon Neptune, Prime Minister of Haiti, urging international help to quell an uprising against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide...
Metayer's cohort, then called the Cannibal Army, was once said to lend its grim services to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Today it makes up the most violent component of a growing opposition that threatens to destabilize Haiti. Now dubbed the Artibonite Resistance Front, the group took control of Gonaives, Haiti's fourth largest city, a week ago by attacking the main police station. All that remains of it and the adjacent prison is a few concrete walls...
...important to show that the Republic ... will not let itself be eaten away from within." JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN, French Prime Minister, defending France's decision to ban head scarves and other Islamic garb in public schools...
...that's just the top branch of a huge and troubled tree." There are signs that France is beginning to strike at the roots. Two weeks ago the Raffarin government established a new administration for renovating decrepit housing projects, a measure long sought by Junior Minister for Urban Affairs Jean-Louis Borloo. The National Agency for Urban Renovation intends to refurbish or build new housing for nearly 6 million banlieue residents by the end of 2008. Some of the program will involve the relocation of partial neighborhoods to more affluent city centers, and the project could initially create around...
...abandoning its unconventional weapons program. Road to Peace Mapped KASHMIR India and Pakistan agreed to a staggered timetable for peace talks to begin after Indian elections due to be held in April, and to include negotiations over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. A Last Attempt? HAITI President Jean-Bertrand Aristide accepted an international peace plan aimed at ending the violence that has seen armed rebels take control of a large swath of the north of the country. However, neither the political opposition nor the rebels immediately endorsed the proposal, which would see Aristide remaining in office with reduced powers...