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White House staffers traveling with Clinton today downplayed the importance of allegations that Haitian Interior Minister Mondesdir Beaubrun was involved in the murder of an opposition leader this week . (Aristide said flatly that Beaubrun was innocent.) U.S. officials told TIME White House correspondentJames Carneythat they disclosed the charges in order to demonstrate that the U.S. government will not condone political retribution in Haiti. Even so, they took no chances on risky photo-ops today: "There will not be an encounter," a State Department official said curtly when asked if Clinton and the minister would cross paths. "They will not shake...
...senior Clinton Administration official tellsTIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Booththat the U.S. has "serious concern" thatHaitian President Jean-Bertrande Aristide's interior minister, Mondesdir Beaubrun, may have been involved in the assassination of Mireille Durocher Bertin , a political opponent of the president, on Tuesday. "There are some real thugs still involved as Aristide supporters on the left and they're settling accounts from the past," the official said. The matter has taken on political urgency because President Clinton plans to visit Port-au-Prince on Friday -- the first U.S. president to do so in 60 years. Booth reports that...
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