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...senior Pentagon official believes that the U.S. would target only the three top members of the ruling military for ouster: Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, Port-au-Prince police chief Michel Francois, and Philippe Biamby, the army chief of staff. "There's a general consensus here," the Pentagon official says, "that if we cut off the head, the monster will die." Whether the trio would be imprisoned or allowed to flee remains an open question. "We can take the thugs out easily," says Edney. "You never can say with no casualties, but I think we could come very close...
While the people of Haiti suffer under economic sanctions, the nation's rulers are not only settling in for the long haul, they're making pricey home improvements. LIEUT. GENERAL RAOUL CEDRAS installed solar panels in his home in the hills above Port-au-Prince, an addition that will make his life more comfortable during frequent blackouts. Michel Francois, head of the Port-au- Prince police, ordered luxury furniture for his mansion -- but alas, the vessel carrying his shipment was turned back by the U.S. blockade...
...pressure the military leaders who ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Earlier in the week the Clinton Administration widened the freeze on Haitian financial assets in the U.S. to include not just the military, but all citizens. Meanwhile, reports circulated that the U.S. was offering big cash for Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and his cronies to simply leave the country. The State Department would neither confirm nor deny the rumors, but they clearly were sowing seeds of doubt among the military rank and file about whether their officers would still be around if and when U.S. troops invade...
...record of 1,500. The surging response prompted Defense Secretary William Perry to weigh sending them to the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba -- and sparked rumors in Haitian and U.S. political circles that invasion is imminent. But TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson doubts it: Haitian strongman Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras is sending signals that he might step down in August, a major aim of the Clinton Administration...
That prospect must surely unsettle the Haitian regime, troubled by its own internal feuds. Haitians were shocked last week when the brother of powerful police chief Michel Francois went on the radio in the Dominican Republic to call for the resignation of military boss Lieut. General Raoul Cedras. While Francois quickly disavowed his brother's statement as "offensive and inopportune," the police chief's associates confirmed a growing rift between the two junta leaders...