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American troops now control the peace in Haiti, after taking over key police precincts yesterday and the Parliament and City Hall in Port-au-Prince today in anticipation of pro-Aristide Haitian legislators' return. The first U.S. fatality also surfaced today when a patrol found an American soldier who had apparently killed himself in a mansion being prepared for Haitian dignitaries. Military police strung concertina wire in front of the white colonnaded Parliament, where the lawmakers are expected to vote on an amnesty for the military junta -- a key part of the quickie deal between capo Lieut. General Raoul Cedras...
...right." Under the new Haiti policy, commercial flights to Haiti will resume Tuesday and Haitians in the U.S. will be able to wire money to their families. The move, Clinton said, was prompted by a gesture Sunday from exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who called on the Haitian parliament to vote Wednesday on granting amnesty to junta supporters.IN HAITI . . . WHO'S AFRAID OF RAOUL? Two days after U.S. Marines shot and killed 10 armed Haitian police, U.S. military police occupied five of Port-au-Prince's main police stations after hundreds of emboldened pro-U.S. demonstrators surrounded...
Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said he would encourage supporters in his country's Parliament to go along with an amnesty vote pardoning Haiti's military junta and their police "attaches." Whether he likes it or not, that's a major concession U.S. officials agreed to in former President Jimmy Carter's deal with the dictators last Sunday. Aristide made his stand clear in a meeting with three U.S. Senators -- including one of the Carter team, Georgia Democrat Senator Sam Nunn -- and said he would return to Haiti as soon as U.S. forces there say it's safe...
Germans who deny the Holocaust won't just be treated like nuts; they could be thrown in the slammer. A crime bill that passed both houses of the parliament includes tough measures against neo-Nazi activities in the country -- like five-year jail terms for people who promote the belief that Auschwitz was a lie. Neo-Nazis remain a serious problem in Germany, where they commit three violent, illegal acts every...
...still afraid of the junta's trigger-happy attaches have hidden.POLITICAL TROUBLE AHEAD? In the city, President Emile Jonnaissant announced that his government would vote on an amnesty decree to protect junta supporters -- part of last Sunday's agreement with former President Jimmy Carter. But nearly half the Haitian Parliament has expressed opposition...