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With Clinton's approval in hand, Jonassaint signed the agreement. The Defense Minister quit on the spot. Cedras sat mute. Then Powell asked him point-blank if he would accept the agreement. Cedras stood erect and pledged his word of honor that he would "obey the command of my president...
...democracy march of 5,000 people, in which skirmishes between the two opposing sides killed three people and injured at least 11. Amid gunfire, Aristide supporters struggled with pro-military "attaches," who were armed with machetes, sticks and pistols. One man was fatally shot in the head at point-blank range. No U.S. soldiers were reported at the demonstration site, near a pro-junta army headquarters, from which attaches had run terror campaigns under the military regime. Witnesses said Haitian troops seized a cage filled with doves and took it back to the militia headquarters, where a soldier...
Next came Harvard's second setback, which was a miserable loss to Loyola in which a poor call by a referee gave Loyola a free possession at point-blank range, staring right at freshman goalie Kate Schutt. Final score: Loyola11, Harvard...
Cohen never had a chance, as the point-blank shot zoomed past her. And just as Harvard's offense exploded in the middle of the first half, so it did in the second...
...final stanza, the Cantabrigians were rolling, and Martins put dual exclamation points on the win. First came a point-blank, Cannon blast of a slapshot, a power-play goal at :56 of the third which surprised even Martins...