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...heard correctly: Perspective. We never thought we would see the day when Harvard-Radcliffe's Leftist Monthly would be accused of being insensitive to minority concerns. Oh wait--there was that cover drawing of Dean Epps last year, where he looked like someone had punched him in the lips. But this time the accusations come not from outside the publication, but from within...
...next day Clinton produced Aristide before cameras in the White House to allay some of the fears that the Haitian's reputation as an anti-U.S. leftist and rabble-rousing demagogue have stirred. Speaking in careful English -- his native language is Creole French -- the slightly built Roman Catholic priest declared, "We say no to retaliation, no to vengeance." To dispel any thought that the U.S. might be installing by force a new President-for-life, Aristide pledged to abide by his country's constitution and yield his office to an elected successor in February 1996, when his five-year...
...months or so, the U.S. must pin its hopes on Aristide. His 1990 election victory gives him an aura of legitimacy no other Haitian figure can come close to matching; the U.S. can hardly pretend to be restoring Haitian democracy if it backs anyone else. If he is a leftist and no admirer of the U.S. -- well, in a perverse way, that makes American intervention easier to defend against possible cries of Yanqui imperialism. Instead of overthrowing a populist reformer to install a military dictatorship friendly to the U.S., Washington will be doing the exact opposite...
This disagreement on sanctions reflects a deeper difference about U.S. support for fledging democracies. Cheney and Baker both describe Aristide as "a leftist," but Baker insists that the exiled leader's politics are immaterial. Those like Cheney "who urge walking away because Aristide isn't our kind of democrat are wrong," says Baker. "If supporting democracy is a cornerstone of our foreign policy, which it is and should be, then you can't treat what democracy produces as a fruit salad, taking a raisin here while rejecting a pecan there. The test should be whether Aristide was chosen...
There were encouraging signs that a genuine two-party system is beginning to emerge. Six splinter parties did very poorly; so did the leftist P.R.D., led by Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, which won only 17%. His party seems likely to fracture and fade further. Meanwhile, the center-right, business-oriented National Action Party (P.A.N.) surged from 16% of the electorate in 1988 to almost 27%. % The party looks like a challenger in the making. "For the P.A.N.," says Denise Dresser, a political scientist at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico, "the race did not end on Aug. 21. It began...