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Suddenly came the White House announcement hardly anyone expected: Carter, Powell and Nunn were going to Port-au-Prince to make one last try at persuading the three top Haitian leaders to take the money and run. Literally take the money and run. The delegation was authorized to discuss just one thing with the Cedras crowd: how they would pack up to leave. U.S. officials denied they were offering any extra cash to the clique, but the three could in effect collect their own money -- the substantial wealth they are believed to have stashed abroad. And Washington would be happy...
David Bohrman, NBC's executive producer of specials, claims that "This is the first event of this kind where the news organizations are not relying on the military for primary access. If the invasion is in Port-au-Prince, we'll see all there...
...hear that they were busy in production, shooting a pilot for "Port-au-Prince Place," a new twentysomething life series about starving Haitians trying to make it on their...
Clinton's decision to send a former president and a former Head of the Joint Chiefs to Port-au-Prince last week to negotiate a peaceful settlement with the Haitian junta ought to raise serious questions about the uses and abuses of American diplomatic initiative...
...Haiti. One of the costliest items in that rescue package: U.S. troops, expected to number 11,000 by this evening. Those already on hand were busy today taking virtual control of the country's military, breaking up 80 percent of its heavy weaponry at an army base near Port-au-Prince and guarding pro-Aristide activists. The result: the atmosphere appears to be more relaxed, according to reports from Haiti. Other U.S. soldiers fanned out over the countryside, where Haitians still afraid of the junta's trigger-happy attaches have hidden.POLITICAL TROUBLE AHEAD? In the city, President Emile Jonnaissant announced...