Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton's decision to send a former president and a former Head of the Joint Chiefs to Port-au-Prince last week to negotiate a peaceful settlement with the Haitian junta ought to raise serious questions about the uses and abuses of American diplomatic initiative...
Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said he would encourage supporters in his country's Parliament to go along with an amnesty vote pardoning Haiti's military junta and their police "attaches." Whether he likes it or not, that's a major concession U.S. officials agreed to in former President Jimmy Carter's deal with the dictators last Sunday. Aristide made his stand clear in a meeting with three U.S. Senators -- including one of the Carter team, Georgia Democrat Senator Sam Nunn -- and said he would return to Haiti as soon as U.S. forces there say it's safe...
...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...