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...frightening. Opponents of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide foresaw serious consequences if the radical priest, ousted in a September 1991 coup d'etat, ever returned to power: rivers of blood would flow through the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and dozens of the regime's opponents would perish in barbarous "necklaces" of burning tires. The poverty-stricken nation would become a Marxist enclave and an enemy of the U.S. So how to explain that a year after Aristide and the country's first democratically elected government were returned to power by a U.S.-led force...
PEACEMAKERS PERISH...
...casualty predictions ranged from 31,000 to 220,000. The Joint Chiefs of Staff offered three different sets of estimates. The worst case: as many as 500,000 Americans killed or wounded. It was assumed that millions of Japanese defenders, military and civilian, would perish...
Worse, they say, officers laboring under recruit-or-perish pressure tend to sign up large numbers of marginal sources. "People go out and recruit assets that don't produce," says Lynn Larkin, who spent eight years as a CIA case officer covering Czechoslovakia and Western Europe. As an unmarried woman, Larkin says she was pressured by her station chief to stop dating a fellow American, even though he had a security clearance. She resigned in disgust 18 months ago, after a married Directorate executive invited her to lunch, announced, "I can help your career if you stick with...
...replace the lower 48 states--a partition plan that the Militia of Montana asserts was spelled out in an illustration on the back of Kix cereal boxes last year. Martial law is inevitable. And Trochmann endorses the prediction that sometime in the next century, "America's white population will perish...