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...that had left more than 3,000 dead since the 1991 coup. It treated men denounced as thugs as "honorable" officials worthy of "mutual respect." The blithe spirit that obliterated previous animosities even accorded a measure of legitimacy to de facto president Emile Jonassaint, 81, caricatured as the spineless puppet of the junta. No less than the President of the United States said, "I had the absolutely incorrect impression that Jonassaint was a figurehead." If Jonassaint is sanitized, indeed laureled, is there need for Aristide? While avoiding bloodshed, the agreement has raised contentious questions...
There is a better reason. The Emmy-nominated MST3K, now in its sixth season on Comedy Central, is the smart person's all-purpose entertainment event of the '90s: a deftly satirical musical-comedy puppet show that masquerades as a two-hour put-down of bad films. Three figures -- a human, Mike Nelson (played by head writer Michael J. Nelson), and two robots, Tom Servo (Kevin Murphy) and Crow (Trace Beaulieu) -- sit in front of a movie screen and, as First Spaceship to Venus or Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster or I Accuse My Parents unspools, they crack wise. That...
...Friday's overture, policymakers were not. The junta, while publicly professing defiance, had been putting out feelers about leaving for at least two months. All their offers bore conditions unacceptable to the U.S.: that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide not be allowed back, that Jonnaissant, Cedras' 80-year-old puppet president, stay in office, that only one or two of the Cedras-Biamby-Francois trio leave...
Haiti's military junta declared a state of siege just hours after the U.N. Security Council voted 12-0 to authorize the U.S. to invade Haiti--if and when the White House chooses to do so. Over state-run television and radio, Haitian puppet President Emile Jonassaint called the U.N. vote "arbitrary, iniquitous and in violation of international rights." He also, redundantly, suspended Haitian's civil liberties and transferred emergency power to the military. In Washington, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Madeline Albright said the military rulers could leave "voluntarily and soon or involuntarily and soon." BTW: The U.S. Coast...
Cedras answered with defiant words and acts. In interviews with American reporters, he insisted that unless the U.S. recognized the government of his puppet President Emile Jonassaint, not even an invasion would force him to resign. Asserted Information Minister Jacques St. Louis, who lived for many years in the U.S. and served in the American Navy during the Vietnam War: "We are not talking anymore because we have nothing new to say. We will not discuss the departure of the military leaders. It troubles me that I might have to fight the uniform I once served in, but Haiti...