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When the President next focuses on his Haiti problem, he will be faced with some basic decisions. Should he set a deadline, public or private, for Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and his cronies to step down? Should he send a special envoy to Port-au-Prince to issue an ultimatum? Now that the U.N. has given its blessing to the use of "all necessary means" to restore Haiti's popularly elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power, should Clinton ask Congress for its support -- and could he get it? Most important, Clinton must decide whether an invasion is a good...
...like men of action -- when all they're doing is waiting to see if the U.S. will invade. "If this were a card game," he says, "there's only one card left, and that's the ace": invasion. Meanwhile, Barnes reports, the U.S.-led embargo is proving a flop. Lieut. General Raoul Cedras is rumored to be making $50,000 a day off the black market, and Haiti's civilian elite have every luxury "but Kellogg's corn flakes . . . By the time the embargo reaches the well-to-do, there probably won't be a country left to save...
...White House isn't impressed with hints from Haiti's military that it would dump its leader if the U.S. would back off from invasion. A tentative offer from senior Haitian military officers would have sacrificed their capo, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, if the U.S. dropped demands for the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide--and eased a trade embargo that's only now beginning to squeeze the ruling elite. But today, White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said the U.S. was still pushing for a United Nations resolution to "remove the dictators by any means necessary." Meanwhile...
Those like Johnson Aristide derive strength from a belief in the President's return. He issues press releases from hiding, demanding the resignation of military leader Lieut. General Raoul Cedras. "My dream is democracy. Telling me to stop is like telling me to stop breathing," he says. "I cannot...
...senior Pentagon official believes that the U.S. would target only the three top members of the ruling military for ouster: Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, Port-au-Prince police chief Michel Francois, and Philippe Biamby, the army chief of staff. "There's a general consensus here," the Pentagon official says, "that if we cut off the head, the monster will die." Whether the trio would be imprisoned or allowed to flee remains an open question. "We can take the thugs out easily," says Edney. "You never can say with no casualties, but I think we could come very close...