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...concerning Iraq in the weeks since--except that date. Once the Administration made the promise, it felt it couldn't back out. But Bremer's Coalition Provisional Authority is having a tough time controlling the process, seemingly being swept downstream by the timetable rather than steering the process into port. Two plans for organizing an interim Iraqi government have come undone, and there is no new one yet. "If this were computer software," says a senior U.S. intelligence officer, "we'd be on version 3-point-something by now." Military commanders on the ground predict that bloody attacks, which...
...democracy last week, it first had to remove a raving demagogue. Not President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who had already resigned on Feb. 29 and flown to asylum in Africa. Now the headache was Guy Philippe, whose rebel army had forced Aristide out--and whose triumphant entry into the capital, Port-au-Prince, lavishly upstaged the simultaneous arrival of hundreds of U.S. Marines. After sweeping the city of Aristide's armed gangs, the baby-faced Philippe, 36, declared himself Haiti's new "commander in chief," despite the fact that Haiti's army was disbanded a decade ago. "The country," he announced...
...Gardner was born on January 3, 1948 in Portsmouth, Ohio. His family moved to the Lake Erie shore town of Port Clinton, Ohio when he was seven or eight years old. Shortly after his seventeenth birthday he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. ?My dad was in the navy, so I wasn?t gonna be an army ?ground pounder,?? he recalled. ?I really liked boats and hunting. Shooting things.? He attended gunnery school at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Waukegan, Illinois and was then sent to Swift boat school at Coronado, California, the same place where Kerry trained...
...recounted in Tour of Duty by Kerry, Gardner had shouted: ?There?s somebody running over there?He?s got a gun?on the port side, on the port side!? PCF-44?s crew had been firing at thatched huts on their way out of the canal, and the reports of their own guns had muffled those of the shots being fired at them. Suddenly, Gardner shrieked, ?I?m hit,? and stopped firing for a moment. Before Kerry could ask his condition, Gardner shouted from his post: ?I?ll be okay,? and went back to firing...
...international community has also seemed hesitant. While the U.S. sent a small contingent of Marines last week to protect the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince, there was no immediate agreement on sending international troops, either as peacekeepers or to help Aristide out of the country. Over the weekend, some 2,200 additional Marines prepared to board naval vessels, poised to cruise just off Haiti's coast this week. Meanwhile, more than 500 Haitians fleeing to the U.S. on boats were intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard, which sent them home without even granting interviews to determine if they merited...