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...breaking up 80 percent of its heavy weaponry at an army base near Port-au-Prince and guarding pro-Aristide activists. The result: the atmosphere appears to be more relaxed, according to reports from Haiti. Other U.S. soldiers fanned out over the countryside, where Haitians still afraid of the junta's trigger-happy attaches have hidden.POLITICAL TROUBLE AHEAD? In the city, President Emile Jonnaissant announced that his government would vote on an amnesty decree to protect junta supporters -- part of last Sunday's agreement with former President Jimmy Carter. But nearly half the Haitian Parliament has expressed opposition...
Under the agreement, Haiti's ruling military junta will relinquish power to exiled President Rev. Jean Bertrand Aristide...
President Clinton ordered more than 1,000 U.S. military police to prevent Haitian police and military officers from beating pro-democracy demonstrators in Port-au-Prince, but it was unclear whether the move was tough enough to scare the junta's overzealous cops into civil behavior. "The habits of violence will not be shed overnight," Clinton said of the beatings, which embarrassed the Administration just a day after Haiti's military rulers agreed to make nice with the U.S. Clinton made clear that U.S. forces in Haiti -- expected to number 8,500 by tonight -- would "work to moderate the conduct...
...invasion isn't pleasing its chief beneficiary -- Jean-Bertrand Aristide. This morning the exiled Haitian President issued a terse statement that pointedly failed to mention the accord brokered Sunday by former President Jimmy Carter. Instead, he referred only to the 1993 Governors Island agreement that would have ousted the junta members who booted him two years earlier. Capitol Hill held no sympathy: "It's time for Jean-Bertrand Aristide to get real," a U.S. Representative said, voicing a common congressional sentiment. Carter didn't make things any easier for President Clinton. He said he intended to remain in contact with...
Then Clinton would explain that he has exhausted all peaceful means of resolving the conflict. The U.S. has tried -- and failed -- to dislodge the junta through negotiations and through economic sanctions whose effect on the Haitian poor now borders "on cruelty." Finally, the official said, the President would argue that the U.S. can no longer accept a situation in Haiti & that contributes to the disastrous explosion of refugees from the Caribbean...