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WALL STREET JOURNAL, U.S.: "It would be a dropkick for a big U.S. invasion force to drive the army out of Port-au-Prince, but then . . . But then what...
...their desks, businessmen spent most of the week frantically shifting money around by phone. Some, waiting in long lines at the bank, scanned local papers for advertisements offering special U.S. flights or Florida mortgages. "The fact that there are no planes is a major psychological blow," said a Port-au-Prince entrepreneur. "The freezing of bank accounts is killing businessmen. Some who were opposed to Aristide returning are finally sobering...
Hundreds of people jammed the airport in Port-au-Prince to catch final flights to Miami and New York City, as the rest of the country put the international crisis on hold for World Cup soccer. The U.S.-led commercial travel ban, designed to budge the ruling junta, kicks in at midnight, and about half the 8,000 Americans in Haiti are expected to leave the country. But even as the deadline approached, virtually everyone took time out to watch local favorites Cameroon and Brazil face off. "This place is a powder keg, and it could...
...current Pentagon analyses, the North Korean incursion across the DMZ is stopped within three weeks by a superior U.S. air campaign. American troops land at the North Korean port of Wonsan, an Allied noose encircles Pyongyang and topples strongman Kim Il Sung within four months. The Koreas reunite -- with the seat of power in Seoul...
...Korea's tanks and armored personnel carriers. Millions of panicked civilians clog the highways, blocking South Korean reinforcements trying to move north. In four weeks, Kim Il Sung's troops would capture Pusan, erasing the mistake their predecessors made 44 years earlier, when Northern forces failed to reach the port before U.S. reinforcements arrived to drive them back across the 38th Parallel...