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That is pretty much the way things are throughout Haiti two months after 21,000 American troops arrived to shove the regime of Lieut. General Raoul Cedras into exile. It is a measure of Haiti's desperation that the country's remarkable progress has been surpassed only by the magnitude of what remains to be done. Despite achievements that exceed all but the most optimistic expectations, Haiti is still bankrupt and riven by social disarray and class distrust. Even the President, who continues to sleep on a fold-up cot in his office, seems stunned by the problems. "This country...
...candidate Bill Clinton excoriated president George Bush for "coddling" dictators. Now forget about General Raoul Cedras and his golden Panamanian parachute. Consider only that President Clinton last week bestowed one of the highest presidential honors on one of the world's chief thugs, President Hafez Assad of Syria. The usual place for meeting the likes of him is some neutral site like Geneva. (One comes away less soiled that way.) Yet Clinton decided to pay court to Assad in Damascus. It was the first visit by a President to a nation on the U.S. list of terrorist states...
...Christian ethic seems to be going all soft and senile. A noisily Christian portion of the Virginia electorate is prepared to send a former felon to the Senate on the grounds that he never cheated on his wife. In Haiti, born-again ex-President Jimmy Carter invited torture master Raoul Cedras to teach Sunday school, apparently because his wife is slender and his shirts are well pressed. Everywhere, private virtue -- or the successful simulation of it -- seems to count more than public morality, and material wealth more than anything else. In the new, mellowed-out version of the old-time...
Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned to Haiti on Saturday after three years in exile. He told thousands of jubilant Haitians that "the sun of democracy has risen to never set." Fears about possible military-sponsored violence had been eased earlier in the week when former military chief Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and his top deputy, Brigadier General Philippe Biamby, left Haiti for Panama. As part of a deal for his departure, the U.S. put down a $60,000 deposit to rent one of Cedras' luxury villas for at least a year. It refused to pick up the tab for two more...
Graustein Professor of Mathematics Raoul Bott blamed female students' high school experiences. Women may be discouraged, and not as well-prepared, because of these earlier classes...