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...wanted to change that. In the grandiloquentphrases of hard-core idealists, the SDSersproclaimed their humanism at the Port Huronconference, writing that individualism "imprintsone's individual qualities in relation to othermen, and to all human activity...
...group did not, however, have a coherentnational agenda. Between the grand goalsarticulated in the Port Huron Statement and thefrustrating reality of grass-roots organizing forERAP projects lay a gap that was a source ofconstant debate...
...months, U.S. Ambassador William Swing had been hearing reports of how smugglers operating across Lake Saumatre from the Dominican Republic were flouting the United Nations fuel embargo against Haiti. Last Wednesday morning, Swing finally saw for himself. About an hour's drive from his elegant residence above Port-au-Prince, he stepped out of his armored car and trained his binoculars on a flotilla of wooden boats laden with large blue drums of petroleum. "It looks like a staging area for some of the contraband coming across," said the ambassador, an observation that has long been obvious to Haitians...
Together with small tankers operating out of Venezuela and Panama, which do not observe the embargo, the armada of smugglers have managed to deliver so much contraband fuel that hucksters have set up a bustling business along "gasoline alley" in Port-au-Prince. Out-of-work vendors vie frantically for customers among the wealthy in Land Rovers. Businessmen can even get gas delivered to their door...
...blocks from the Port-au-Prince harbor, a grocery wholesaler complained about an embargo that seemed to benefit only the oligarchs. "If there's no leak in the embargo, then I'll be happy," she says. Last week black marketeers slapped an $11 charge on every case of supplies. Canned milk, a substitute for nonexistent fresh milk, has doubled in price. "The poor people can't afford it," she says. "Everything is for the rich first...