Word: port
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...Tammerlane Drummond reports that recent international aid to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's new government already tops $1 billion -- more, per capita, than any other country in the world has received. Drummond, who recently visited the Haitian capital, says a virtual army of American small businessmen is already swarming Port-au- Prince looking for a piece of the action...
JIMMY CARTER Br-r-r-r! September's hero gets a chilly response on his return to Port-au-Prince...
Brigadier General James C. Hill reported that he yanked the leash on two powerful enemies of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide rumored to be plotting a coup. Hill said he summoned to his office Franck Romain, a former Port-au-Prince police chief and mayor and former army chief Williams Regala, to warn them to stop their reported schemes against Aristide's government. TIME Miami correspondent Tammerlin Drummond reports: "Many Haitians feel that these former military leaders are just lying low until the last U.S. troops leave to make their move. There have been unconfirmed rumors of plots around Mardi Gras...
...first time since his freelance diplomatic efforts in September persuaded the country's ruling junta to leave. Carter, who oversaw Haiti's first democratic vote in 1990, plans to help in preparations for the country's next round of elections in June. He'll be joined in Port-au-Prince Friday by the other members of the U.S. negotiating trio, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell. Still, the former president is less than popular in Haiti, where many resent the fact that he allowed the dictators to remain in power...
...Port, at Golden...