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...embassy in Port-au-Prince won't recognize elections that Haiti's military leaders are planning, American embassy spokesman Stan Schrager said, nor will the U.S.'s international allies. The junta's government functionaries said Monday they'd hold 10 days of meetings to arrange the general elections, but most Haitians are expected to ignore the balloting...
...blames the U.S. news media for spreading a contrary impression. At the same time, though, it keeps up a steady rolling of war drums. Pentagon officials last week willingly described what sounded like invasion-rehearsal exercises by Marines on Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas 200 miles north of Port-au-Prince and by soldiers of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The Pentagon also announced the arrival on station of a new command ship for the 14-vessel flotilla standing ready near Haiti: the U.S.S. Mount Whitney. Crammed with communications gear and sprouting...
...Cedras regime summarily booted out nearly 100 human-rights monitors sent by the U.N. and the Organization of American States, contemptuously delivering to their headquarters in Port-au-Prince a plain white envelope containing a single sheet of paper ordering them to get out within 48 hours. They did, to the applause of some of Cedras' tough-talking supporters. "These people were poison," says Mireille Durocher Bertin, a lawyer. "They poisoned Haitian society with their lies and unverified reports...
...seven months, TIME's Edward Barnes, Cathy Booth and Bernard Diederich are in Haiti waiting for the Americans to arrive. Last October the U.S.S. Harlan County, trying to land with a U.N.-sponsored team of military and police advisers, turned back after anti-U.S. mobs demonstrated at the port. This time Barnes, betting things will be different, has rented a room in a "strategically located" brothel with a roof that should command a good view of the first attack. Miami bureau chief Booth spent several days % last week at the army's decrepit general quarters, trying to glean what...
...villages that had perished as desperate people tried to flee by sea. Booth set off for the ruggedly beautiful north coast, looking for Haitians who had reportedly organized a resistance movement in support of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. "The divisions are as profound in the countryside as in Port-au-Prince," says Booth. "It's hard to see how the pro-military and pro-Aristide groups will ever find a middle ground...