Word: raoul
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Former president Carter, fresh off a dubious victory in Haiti that will apparently allow Raoul Cedras to remain in the country if not in power, announced that he had had a "very pleasant" conversation with Fidel Castro and hoped to pressure the Administration into making concessions. Bill Clinton, meanwhile, has Guantanamo Naval Base filled to capacity with tens of thousands of dissatisfied Cubans, a concentration camp that will cost millions in its first months alone...
...island, meanwhile, increased to 6,000, including about 1,800 Marines who moved ashore at Cap-Haitien in the north. BTW: A U.S. official confirmed to the Associated Press that American commandos had been in Haiti for weeks, set to kidnap Haiti's de facto ruler, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, during an invasion...
...could deliver. The military has not proved adept at manhunts: it failed to arrest Aidid or kill Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and spent two frustrating weeks before it arrested Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said two weeks ago that the apprehension of Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and the Haitian junta is a "dead certainty," but such comments make Pentagon officials very nervous...
...demonstrators screamed slogans into the microphones of foreign television crews and painted voodoo hexes on the crosswalk to hobble U.S. invaders when they arrive. As an expression of the diplomacy-of-defiance that constitutes Haiti's foreign policy, it provided a crude but telling glimpse of what Lieut. General Raoul Cedras thinks of Clinton's threats to topple him and his henchmen...
...longer matter whether Clinton succeeds this week in persuading Americans to support him in his venture. For better or worse, the President has drawn a line from which he can no longer retreat, and which points inexorably toward war. There is now only one person who can change that: Raoul Cedras...