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...retaliate. In Tabar, a small village just outside Port-au-Prince, a group of townspeople captured ten men who had repeatedly robbed and attacked the locals. In the ensuing melee, three of those captured were killed. Last Sunday several men burst into the living quarters of a Dutch priest who had recently said a funeral Mass for a Tabar boy killed by the army. The robbers stole $3,000 from the church near Port-au-Prince and shot the priest twice. He survived...
...several progressive clergymen who joined this summer's attack on the government is the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, 34, an energetic priest with a solid constituency among the hundreds of thousands of discarded people who live in the slums of Port-au-Prince. He is known as the priest of the poor, and visitors walking through the hallways of the church compound where he works are likely to stumble over abandoned children who use the place as a sort of unofficial clubhouse, sleeping and playing ferocious games of cards and marbles...
...ruling class, Aristide and his clerical colleagues are hated. But the people from the shantytowns, especially Haiti's eternally jobless young men, believe in him. "He's the messiah," says one youth, lounging in La Saline, the slum behind Aristide's church. During his sermons in the summer, the priest rarely failed to attack the regime and the U.S. government that supports...
Like others, the priest is not particularly hopeful about the election's outcome. The call for a substantial change in the provisional government has been stilled in the face of continuing U.S. support for the regime. Today, Aristide is advocating instead a "historic national unity" across class lines "to prevent Duvalierists and the Tonton Macoutes from taking power...
Ficano said the good father has been observed at disaster sites in at least seven other states. Although Irish has not been charged with a crime and Brimmell denies using anyone to solicit business, Detroit authorities are investigating whether the "priest" committed fraud...