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...President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991 until last spring. So Constant was getting American money when he helped the Haitian army organize FRAPH in the summer of 1993, and also a year ago when FRAPH staged a fake riot that caused the U.S.S. Harlan County to turn back from Port-au-Prince without landing any of the U.S. military personnel aboard. That was a foreign-policy disaster the Clinton Administration is only now living down...
Officials, however, have no convincing explanation as to why Constant has escaped a belated crackdown on FRAPH. After FRAPH gunmen fired on and broke up a demonstration by Aristide supporters, killing six, American soldiers last Monday finally raided the organization's headquarters in Port-au-Prince. They carried off to prison 35 mostly lower-ranking FRAPH members...
...year ago today, the USS Harlan County, filled with American and Canadian troops, was not allowed to dock in Port au Prince, turned back by a group of Haitian thugs. President Clinton's Haiti policy was widely ridiculed and lay in tatters around...
...ruled Haiti sincethey led a coup in 1991, have resigned and plan to slip into well-heeled exile.Cedras announced he was stepping down five days before the U.S.-imposeddeadline, but screams from hundreds of pro-democracy Haitians drowned out hisfarewell speech from a podium at army headquarters in downtown Port-au-Prince."I have decided to leave our country so my presence will not be a motive tocreate terror," he explained. He left with a salute, turning the army over tohis No. 2, Maj. Gen. Jean-Claude Duperval, who is expected to be replacedquickly by someone with better pro-democracy...
...capos' wake, the police and armyhave become utterly demoralized and ceased to be a power in Haiti, TIME writerMarguerite Michaels reports from Port-au-Prince. "It's not a police force in anysense that we understand it," she says. Raymond Kelly, the former NYPD chiefnow helping to rebuild the Haitian force, said he was having trouble getting thecops onto the streets at all. Without Haitian security, U.S. forces are fearingthey may have to fire on looting pro-democracy Haitians if the returningPresident Jean Bertrand Aristide can't control his people. "So much depends onAristide, and there is so little trust...