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...Haiti are not afraid to defy the world. Last week junta leader Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, the army strongman blocking the return of democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, cavalierly engineered the installation of an 81-year-old crony as the military's handpicked President, in direct challenge to the U.S. A minority of right-wing legislators, including eight elevated after irregular elections organized by the military last year, declared that under the constitution, Aristide's long absence left them no choice but to appoint a successor. As a 21-gun salute boomed over the capital, Supreme Court Justice Emile...
...sanctions consist of a travel ban on members of the Haitian military and their families, the possible freezing of assets and a ban on non-commercial flights in and out of Haiti. If the junta does not step down by May 21, a total ban on both imports and exports will go into effect...
...exile, the Gonaives killings finally forced the Clinton Administration to revise yet again its ineffective Haiti policy. The U.S. called on the U.N. Security Council to adopt a resolution imposing a worldwide embargo, more sweeping than the sanctions in force for the past six months, unless members of the junta in Port-au-Prince resigned or left the country within 15 days; the clock would start ticking the moment the resolution passed. "We're not alone in being frustrated, irritated, furious about what is going on in Haiti," said Madeleine Albright, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. The proposed sanctions would...
...proposal for sharper U.N. action still sets no date for Aristide's return and provides no real muscle to remove a junta whose members are getting rich smuggling in fuel and food from the Dominican Republic, in defiance of the existing U.N. ban and a voluntary OAS trade embargo. Senator Christopher Dodd, an advocate of tougher sanctions who recently returned from a trip to . Haiti, believes new U.N. measures will not be enough. With dissatisfaction over Clinton's Haiti policy mounting in Congress, a senior Administration official admitted that no option, not even military intervention, was being ruled...
Then something went wrong. Angry mobs met the peacekeepers--mobs encouraged by the military government. Without adequate arms to force their way ashore, the peacekeepers headed home, mission unaccomplished. Subsequent sanctions have made life miserable for Haiti's population, but the junta hasn't budged...