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...position to warn Cedras that Congress had no chance of stopping an invasion, a convincing message from the head of a powerful Senate committee who is personally strongly opposed to an invasion. Powell would appeal to Cedras as both a military man and an African American; as the successful planner of the Gulf War he would give the mission credibility among Clinton's Republican opponents...
...troops and a six-month American presence, according to Leon Edney, the retired Navy admiral who, as commander of all U.S. Atlantic forces, was responsible for Haiti when President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown nearly three years ago. Haiti's military "hardly warrants the name," a Pentagon planner says; its 7,500 troops are ill-trained and poorly equipped, and they are expected to offer little overt resistance. In all likelihood U.S. forces would quickly take control of the handful of Haitian armored vehicles, planes, boats and guns. "The Haitians will be lucky...
...They join another helicopter carrier, the Wasp, with 650 Marines aboard, already stationed in the area. Along with combat-ready Marines, these vessels are crammed with an arsenal of armed helicopters, howitzers and armored vehicles. "Ships take days to get to Haiti, but airplanes take only hours," one war planner says. "With these ships in the neighborhood, we've got enough to invade. We're good...
...brilliant planner and organizer," Boyd says. "He is a politically very skillful person. He was very much of a facilitator...
...market started to die, so I'm hanging on to everything," at least until prices recover a bit. After 2 1/2 years in the market, Aimee Swenby, 31, an executive assistant at a financial planning firm, and her husband John, 37, have sold, on the advice of a planner who told them to cash in some of their gains, 25% of the $20,000 worth of mutual-fund shares they had accumulated. They intend to hold the rest. Says Aimee: "I have & confidence the market will come back...