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In Limbe, a Haitian town of perhaps 20,000 on the road from Cap Haitien to Port-au-Prince, the chaotic interlude between the disintegration of the old order and the establishment of the new began last week with the spectacular helicopter landing of U.S. Marines. We heard stories of...
Their target was the town's police headquarters. Again and again, the crowds surged forward before being driven back by shots fired in the air by the remaining police -- most had already stolen away. (The Marines had confiscated mortars, heavy weapons and deadly fragmentation grenades but had left six rifles...
Without thinking, I raised my hands high over my head and, followed by Miami Herald reporter Susan Benesch, bolted for the American line, jumping over the unexploded grenade. "Don't shoot," we shouted. "They're scared and will surrender." Later the soldiers would tell us they were within a quarter...
Meanwhile, out in the countryside the disintegration of the Haitian military left a yawning power vacuum. In the north, around the country's second largest city of Cap Haitien, civil authority virtually collapsed following the fire fight on Sept. 24 in which a company of Marines cut down 10 Haitian...
For the vast majority of Haitians who support Aristide, freedom from the hated military was something to be welcomed joyfully. In Cap Haitien, while residents celebrated the return of electricity for the first time in three years -- courtesy of the Marines -- only one uniformed Haitian soldier remained at his post...