Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President William Jefferson Clinton, in his address to the nation on Thursday. Evidently, the president tried something else on Sunday, last night, Clinton announced that the military junta in Haiti has agreed to step down following negotiations over the weekend...
...proved adept at manhunts: it failed to arrest Aidid or kill Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and spent two frustrating weeks before it arrested Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said two weeks ago that the apprehension of Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and the Haitian junta is a "dead certainty," but such comments make Pentagon officials very nervous...
...chairman Sam Nunn. Earlier, Clinton met with ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who pledged amnesty to opponents once he is restored. The surprise White House announcement capped a day of apparent jitters and Byzantine dealmaking in the Caribbean. TIME correspondent Sam Allis, in the Haitian capital, says the junta may be staying put because they fear their own troops. This morning, Allis says, Gen. Philippe Biamby, a junta member who almost never talks publicly, went on Haitian radio to quash rumors of a compromise in which the military triumvirate would...
...opening hours and the opening days," Thompson says.THE HAITIAN BATTLE PLAN? Haiti's elite troops aren't exactly planning a mano-a-mano confrontation: TIME's Allis reports that many have already changed into their civvies and gone home -- with weapons. The so-called "evaporation defense," which the junta threatened weeks ago, would leave 7,500 Haitian soldiers in hiding as 20,000 better-armed U.S. troops scour the country. The Haitian troops will either act as snipers or, if people feel safe after a U.S. invasion, they'll be fingered by the civilians they used to terrorize, says Allis...
With his 11th-hour address to the nation set for 9 p.m. EDT tomorrow, President Clinton is no longer leaving threats against Haiti's military junta to aides. "It is time for them to get out of there," Clinton told reporters in the Oval Office today. With a U.S. invasion rumored -- but only rumored -- to happen as soon as this weekend, the President also said the U.S. had "exhausted every available alternative" to military action, and he was "sorry" about opinion polls that suggest Americans overwhelmingly oppose the move. Speculation is rampant in the capital that the President will...