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...dickering was resolved around midnight when Jimmy Carter, busily pecking away on his portable computer at home, faxed a final agreement to Cedras and to the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince. Based on intensive discussions Carter had held with Cedras and his wife, the agreement provided that the U.S. would rent at least one of the three houses belonging to the Cedras family. The price: a hefty $5,000 per month. U.S. soldiers would also protect the other villas for six weeks to make sure they weren't looted...
...Port-au-Prince, Shelton has become the de facto proconsul; his 10th Mountain Division is for the moment Haiti's replacement army, civil service, utility company and public relations firm. In the countryside, 31 U.S. Army Green Beret A Teams, each made up of about 12 soldiers, have quietly fanned out to key towns and villages. They are holding town meetings in Pilate and Plaisance. Further south in Hinche, Special Forces soldiers just completed "Operation Light Switch," getting a generator up and running to restore some power. "The people are now out in the streets," said a secret report sent...
...Army doing work among the poor, its own members tell a very different story. Pierre Audin, a FRAPH member now in hiding, tells TIME quite simply that his job was to beat people. He boasts that he killed at least five people on night patrols through the slums of Port-au-Prince. "I don't know who they were," says Audin. "They were just people violating the laws of Michel Francois" -- in what manner he does not say. He adds that "I would kill Aristide and his family today if I could...
HAITI: Flying Down to Port-au-Prince...
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, standing behind a bulletproof shield on which his security detail insisted, pleaded with Haitians to remain calm after enraged supporters killed one man and torched 15 buildings last night. The attack on Gonaives, 100 miles north of Port-au-Prince, followed a false rumor that junta holdover Major General Jean-Claude Duperval -- the Haitian army commander until Aristide names a replacement -- had led a coup against Aristide. This morning the reinstalled President underscored his plea by having Duperval help him raise Haiti's flag at the National Palace. Also today, U.S. forces reported the third suicide...