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That may be explained by Massie's background. A lecturer at Harvard Divinity School, the lieutenant governor hopeful has served as an Episcopal priest...
...still, we must remember. I think of Jean-Marie Vincent ((a priest and friend of Aristide's who was assassinated at the end of August)), and I think of the others who have died. The anonymous victims must be remembered along with the better known ones because they too died so that the country can live. Some have died in all innocence, but others, like Jean-Marie, have chosen to lose their lives for the nation. I myself and the Haitian people must feed ourselves at the source of his courage...
...next day Clinton produced Aristide before cameras in the White House to allay some of the fears that the Haitian's reputation as an anti-U.S. leftist and rabble-rousing demagogue have stirred. Speaking in careful English -- his native language is Creole French -- the slightly built Roman Catholic priest declared, "We say no to retaliation, no to vengeance." To dispel any thought that the U.S. might be installing by force a new President-for-life, Aristide pledged to abide by his country's constitution and yield his office to an elected successor in February 1996, when his five-year...
...Last week in Alexandria, Louisiana, deputy sheriff Paul Broussard shot his estranged wife Andrea five times because she was filing for divorce. He fled across the street to a bank, still waving his gun, as police moved in and sealed the area. Surrounded by sharpshooters, Broussard talked to a priest for more than two hours. A friend and a police chaplain tried to persuade him to surrender as well. "Nothing worked," said Lieut. Tommy Cicardo. Broussard finally put the .45 to his jaw and pulled the trigger, as the local TV cameras rolled...
...transformation has been a painful and slow one. As a charismatic priest in the progressive wing of the Roman Catholic Church, Aristide was used to making a strong impression without bearing much responsibility for the political consequences. Fierce and theatrical behind the pulpit, he preached grand ideas of justice and equality, then left his parishioners to decide what to do. Often his sermons brought people out into the streets in a surge of anger, only to be fired upon by the army. With a priest's immunity, he castigated the most powerful sectors of society -- the wealthy elite, the business...