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Last week, after an old-fashioned coup ousted Haitian President Jean- Bertrand Aristide, the entire western hemisphere focused its outrage on the brazen military bosses in Port-au-Prince. The Americas were not prepared to let Haiti's military men get away with it. Their takeover, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said bluntly, "will not succeed...
...Port-au-Prince last week, there was scant evidence of who was in charge. The power vacuum was visible at military headquarters, where a handful of soldiers gazed at Cable News Network and a burly naval officer was watching Poltergeist II. He had no idea where Cedras or his aides might...
...reverse the coup was the question addressed by an emergency session of the OAS in Washington. Aristide flew to the U.S. capital and urged the hemisphere's assembled foreign ministers to clamp enough nonmilitary pressure on Haiti to restore him to office. He suggested sending a delegation to Port-au-Prince to tell the army chiefs, led by Brigadier General Raoul Cedras, an Aristide appointee, "that they must immediately leave the presidential palace" or face total isolation. For his part, Cedras claimed he had stepped in only to quiet rebellious troops in what had begun as a rank-and-file...
...Port-Au-Prince is literally littered with bloody bodies," Fleurant said...
...city's Haitian population of about 10,000 owns its own taxicab company and dominates a number of local parishes. Last year, the City Council voted to make Port-Au-Prince one of its sister cities. And last March, a month after Aristide was elected, the city sent a goodwill delegation to tour the small Caribbean country...