Word: port
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David Bohrman, NBC's executive producer of specials, claims that "This is the first event of this kind where the news organizations are not relying on the military for primary access. If the invasion is in Port-au-Prince, we'll see all there...
...hear that they were busy in production, shooting a pilot for "Port-au-Prince Place," a new twentysomething life series about starving Haitians trying to make it on their...
Clinton's decision to send a former president and a former Head of the Joint Chiefs to Port-au-Prince last week to negotiate a peaceful settlement with the Haitian junta ought to raise serious questions about the uses and abuses of American diplomatic initiative...
...Haiti. One of the costliest items in that rescue package: U.S. troops, expected to number 11,000 by this evening. Those already on hand were busy today taking virtual control of the country's military, breaking up 80 percent of its heavy weaponry at an army base near Port-au-Prince and guarding pro-Aristide activists. The result: the atmosphere appears to be more relaxed, according to reports from Haiti. Other U.S. soldiers fanned out over the countryside, where Haitians still afraid of the junta's trigger-happy attaches have hidden.POLITICAL TROUBLE AHEAD? In the city, President Emile Jonnaissant announced...
President Clinton ordered more than 1,000 U.S. military police to prevent Haitian police and military officers from beating pro-democracy demonstrators in Port-au-Prince, but it was unclear whether the move was tough enough to scare the junta's overzealous cops into civil behavior. "The habits of violence will not be shed overnight," Clinton said of the beatings, which embarrassed the Administration just a day after Haiti's military rulers agreed to make nice with the U.S. Clinton made clear that U.S. forces in Haiti -- expected to number 8,500 by tonight -- would "work to moderate the conduct...