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...applied, only rarely force a determined rogue government to mend its ways. Haiti, however, is almost without domestic resources. It is the poorest country in the hemisphere, and 60% of its 6 million people are unemployed. Without aid from abroad, its economic survival is in question. An economist in Port-au-Prince says the military leaders have "grabbed hot steel and they are going to get burned...
...explain the seriousness of the OAS decisions to the army leaders, a nine- member delegation headed by Secretary-General Joao Baena Soares of Brazil was dispatched to Port-au-Prince at week's end. If the junta does not back down, the organization has resolved to call another emergency meeting to plan further turns of the screw...
...deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide addressed the Organization of American States in Washington last week, the scene outside was reminiscent of the good old days in Port-au-Prince. Thousands of Haitians sang and danced and demonstrated on his behalf outside the white fortress-like building on Constitution Avenue. The atmosphere was heady, anticipatory. There were drums. "While he is trying to get justice in there, we are with him out here," said a Haitian protester, who waved a long red-and-blue banner that said it all, in simple terms: WE WANT ARISTIDE. In Haitian Creole they have begun...
When a band of hired thugs killed hundreds of peasants in Haiti's northwestern province in July 1987, Aristide was there to denounce the massacre. Four months later, when paramilitary forces burned down a central market in Port-au-Prince, Aristide was there to excoriate the perpetrators and to raise money to rebuild the place. When one military dictator after another came to power promising democracy down the road, Aristide dismissed them, one after another, with an ironic Creole proverb and a blistering sermon. He never gave the least philosophical quarter to those he perceived as "roadblocks to the liberation...
...that Croatia had violated the cease-fire, launched a new offensive aimed at crushing resistance in the rebel republic. The main targets of the onslaught were the key Croatian towns of Vukovar, Vinkovci and Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia's best-known tourist attraction on the Adriatic coast. As warships blockaded the port city, air- force jets bombed and strafed it, while artillery pounded the area, leaving Dubrovnik without electricity and water...