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...anyone with a well-founded fear of persecution is entitled to political asylum in the U.S. Someone who is desperate to find a job and feed a family is not. Until now, Bill Clinton has avoided trying to tell them apart and simply repatriated all Haitian boat people to Port-au-Prince. His new plan to process their claims at sea and grant refuge to the deserving quieted domestic criticism but may not do the job. Here's how it would work...
...Gonaives killings finally forced the Clinton Administration to revise yet again its ineffective Haiti policy. The U.S. called on the U.N. Security Council to adopt a resolution imposing a worldwide embargo, more sweeping than the sanctions in force for the past six months, unless members of the junta in Port-au-Prince resigned or left the country within 15 days; the clock would start ticking the moment the resolution passed. "We're not alone in being frustrated, irritated, furious about what is going on in Haiti," said Madeleine Albright, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. The proposed sanctions would stop most...
...first casualty of the new Haiti policy, however, was not the Haitian military but Lawrence Pezzullo, Washington's special envoy to Haiti, who was forced to step down. After a year on the job, Pezzullo had come to symbolize the Clinton Administration's ambivalence toward the military leaders. In Port- au-Prince he had become so irrelevant that the Haitian army no longer bothered to show up for meetings with him. A frustrated Pezzullo admitted recently that the U.S. had been trapped into playing "rhetorical gymnastics with the military...
...deal in foreign capitals, where people draw powerful conclusions from what they see on CNN. Carnegie's Goble recalls the embarrassing case of the U.S.S. Harlan County, the ship carrying U.S. military construction experts to Haiti that turned back when faced with a few government-paid thugs at the port. "If you think you might have to withdraw a ship," he says, "you don't send...
...group did not, however, have a coherentnational agenda, between the grand goalsarticulated in the Port Huron Statement and thefrustrating reality of grass-roots organizing forERAP projects lay gap that was a source ofconstant debate...