Word: raoul
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...year later, with the resignation and imminent departure of Haiti's dictators, Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras and Brig. Gen. Phillipe Biamby, one of the key objectives of Clinton's refined Haiti policy has been accomplished...
Hundreds of U.S. troops occupied Haiti's National Palace this afternoon, helping supporters of returning President Jean-Bertrand Aristide free the government of junta influence down to the last paper-shuffler. Now that Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras has stepped down, Aristide's Cabinet ministers fired all employees hired under the junta's civilian figurehead government and took over ministry offices. Aristide, meanwhile, plans to return to Haiti in grand style Saturday, with three planes stuffed with so many guests that the State Department is complaining. In addition to Secretary of State Warren Christopher, the party includes the Rev. Jesse Jackson...
...watchful gaze, the man who is second in popularity to President Jean- Bertrand Aristide was able to deliver an emotional speech celebrating the end of military rule and admonishing his fellow Haitians to exercise patience, mercy and restraint. His only rhetorical barb was reserved for junta leader Lieut. General Raoul Cedras. "Bye lakou blanche!" he declared. Rough translation: "Hit the road...
...Raoul Cedras and Brig. Gen.Philippe Biamby, the remaining two of the triumvirate that ruled Haiti sincethey led a coup in 1991, have resigned and plan to slip into well-heeled exile.Cedras announced he was stepping down five days before the U.S.-imposeddeadline, but screams from hundreds of pro-democracy Haitians drowned out hisfarewell speech from a podium at army headquarters in downtown Port-au-Prince."I have decided to leave our country so my presence will not be a motive tocreate terror," he explained. He left with a salute, turning the army over tohis No. 2, Maj. Gen. Jean-Claude...
Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and General Philippe Biamby, the two Haitian coup leaders left after police chief Michel Francois fled Monday night, wept at the funeral for 10 junta "attaches" killed Sept. 24 in a shootout with U.S. Marines. U.S. officials ignored the ceremony, while pro-democracy Haitians helped U.S. soldiers track down army-allied gunmen who had terrorized neighborhoods since the junta seized power in 1991. Francois, who engineered the coup but slipped away to a comfortable house in the neighboring Dominican Republic, left behind a letter that reproaches the other two capos for striking an agreement with former...