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Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and General Philippe Biamby, the two Haitian coup leaders left after police chief Michel Francois fled Monday night, wept at the funeral for 10 junta "attaches" killed Sept. 24 in a shootout with U.S. Marines. U.S. officials ignored the ceremony, while pro-democracy Haitians helped U.S...
Saturday: After blasting a "sayonara," or game-winning, homer, slugger Hiromoto Okubo of the first-place Yomiuri Giants (Central League) is so overcome with emotion that he bursts into tears on reaching home plate in a 6-4 victory over the Hanshin Tigers. Tuesday: League-leading hitter Ichiro Suzuki, left...
Then the big U.S. military machine shifted gears again. As its troop levels reached 12,000 on the way up to 15,000, its power began to spread across Haiti and through the capital. The U.S. commander, Lieut. General Henry Hugh Shelton, a big, jut-jawed Ranger, told the Haitian...
The Haitian junta reluctantly agreed to the arrival of U.S. forces, who asserted control over the Caribbean island's military and police. American troops were initially forced to watch uncomfortably as Haitian police savagely beat civilians -- at least one of them to death -- but they were later given permission to...
A world in which raw power is still held in the highest respect may be forgiven if it is unimpressed with a leader so patently averse to using it. In Clinton's world, intellectual effort is too often directed at blaming others. The President portrays himself variously as the victim...