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...short, the answer is the president's willingness to listen to Jimmy Carter. The ex-president's dramatic diplomacy avoided an invasion and allowed the peaceful deployment of American troops. But there were conditions, the primary one being that the junta would remain in power, and the Haitian police in control, until October 15, the date set for President Aristide's return. Thus the strange and uncomfortable partnership between U.S. and Haitian forces...
...arrival of troops. The graphic sights of Haitian civilians being beaten to death under the eyes of well-armed G.I.'s forced the Clinton administration to speed up its disarmament of the Haitian armed forces. American troops were also given a broader mandate to deter excesses by pro-junta forces...
...Haitian police and army have been formally defanged, the more shadowy tentacles of the junta remain, the notorious "attaches." They will not retreat until the military government no longer has power. And disarming them will be a difficult task; their weapons are not held in armories but in private homes around the country...
...does succeed in completing the transition and forcing the Junta's departure, the bulk of the forces should leave and the United Nations transitional team should fill the gap. At that point, the U.S. will have done what it can-it will have given Haiti another chance at democracy. And just a chance. The job of marking it work will and must remain with the people and leaders of Haiti...
...operation, many found the manner and the content of the deal that had forestalled an invasion distasteful. To get out of a jam, the current President had lent his authority to a failed former President. The terms of Jimmy Carter's arrangement to remove Haiti's brutal junta were so much less than Clinton had promised only days before. The agreement did not require the dictators to leave Haiti after their retirement, and they did not even sign it. It implied they and their followers were entitled to a "general amnesty" for the acts of repression that had left more...