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Under pressure from a worldwide oil-and-arms embargo, the Haitian military junta agreed to meet with Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the elected President they ousted...
...getting tough with Haiti. The Security Council gave the Caribbean nation's military junta just one week to allow democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to return from exile to the office from which it ousted him in 1991. If the army fails to reinstate Aristide, Haiti will face severe international sanctions, including a freeze on its overseas assets and an embargo of oil and weapons shipments. A proposal for a naval blockade, however, failed...
...using sanctions, inspections and the threat of military retribution to whittle down the scope of his authority to his palace and his bunker. The hope in Washington is that sooner or later, someone in Saddam's inner circle, or more likely a junta of someones, will tire of working for an impotent pariah; one fine morning Saddam will be gone, at least from office and better yet from this world...
...slippery slope is exactly what Western leaders fear most about intervening in the former Yugoslav republic. Even short of a Desert Storm-scale operation, how can the deployment of multinational firepower be justified here and now when other peoples are also in mortal peril -- starving Somalis, say, or junta-persecuted Burmese? And if intrusion is justified, what force could conceivably sort out a vicious blood feud among hill folk who have helped write the book on guerrilla warfare...
...ABOUT A DECADE, DEMOCRACY HAS BEEN ON A roll. The revolution began in Latin America, as one junta after another gave way to an elected civilian government. Then, with the collapse of Soviet communism, people power spread to Eastern Europe and much of Eurasia. In several areas of Africa and the Far East too, despotism and minority rule are on the defensive or in retreat...