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Cedras' backers are widely thought to have drawn up a hit list of opposition members who would be gunned down as U.S. troops were about to land, peacefully or as an invasion force. At the head of the list, supposedly, is Port-au- Prince Mayor Evans Paul. Some Aristide supporters were said to have asked the U.S. to give them two or three days' warning of an invasion so they could go into hiding...
...strangers. A profile in the New York Times described him as "wan, distracted . . . gentle-mannered to the point of caricature." Haitians who know Aristide are confounded by such descriptions. "There must be some kind of a cultural misunderstanding," says Guylene Viaud, who worked with Aristide's youth groups in Port-au-Prince. "To us he seems very open. He loves to joke and to make people laugh." Says a close friend: "When he feels secure, he opens up. When he's besieged, he shuts people...
...graver problem. They fear that Aristide's supporters, if not Aristide himself, will seek revenge for abuses and killings committed during the three years since the coup. There is a long tradition of vengeance when power shifts. When Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier fell in 1986, crowds surged through Port-au-Prince seeking out members of the Tontons Macoutes and beating them to death. But Aristide's followers are just as afraid that weapons left in the hands of the military and its gangs of thugs will continue to be trained on them...
...seeks to close is largely the result of his own dithering. Indeed, more than anything else, the current crisis can be traced to the President's capitulation to an unarmed rent-a-mob protesting the arrival of a U.S. warship last October. When the Harlan County turned away from Port-au-Prince, the junta was emboldened to break its promise to depart voluntarily...
...gesture Sunday from exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who called on the Haitian parliament to vote Wednesday on granting amnesty to junta supporters.IN HAITI . . . WHO'S AFRAID OF RAOUL? Two days after U.S. Marines shot and killed 10 armed Haitian police, U.S. military police occupied five of Port-au-Prince's main police stations after hundreds of emboldened pro-U.S. demonstrators surrounded the buildings. Elsewhere, hundreds more protesters surrounded the army headquarters, where Haitian junta leader Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras was meeting with U.S. Ambassador William Swing and Lt. Gen. Hugh Shelton, the American military commander in Haiti...