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...eggshell fragility of the compromise quickly became evident, however, when Aristide promptly declared that the amnesty must not cover the top putsch leader, army chief Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, whom he labeled a common criminal. The vaguely worded accord, which needs to be ratified by Haiti's Parliament, was a "miracle," said an OAS diplomat, "but we'll need another miracle to make it stick...
Furthermore, military leader General Raoul Cedras still retains control in Haiti despite an agreement reached last week in Washington between Aristide and leaders of parliament. The proposed plan envisions Aristide's eventual return to Haiti, but this return is not expected to occur in the foreseeable future. The Cedras government which will stay in power for the interim is the same regime from which thousands of Haitians have fled...
More than 15,000 Haitians have risked death while unknown numbers have died trying to escape the new junta led by General Raoul Cedras. Unless the Supreme Court or Congress intervenes, and unless the president improbably changes his mind (he's no wimp, after all), most of these refugees--tired, hungry, poor, yearning to be free, etc.--will soon be back in the hands of the Duvalierists. In the last week alone, 3402 have been summarily repatriated...
...provisional President. The figurehead President was hastily appointed by Haitian lawmakers after soldiers stormed the legislature to close off a constitutional loophole that would allow Aristide's return. Other troops took over the Port-au-Prince airport while the head of the Haitian armed forces, Brigadier General Raoul Cedras, and OAS diplomats were meeting there...
...Washington. Aristide flew to the U.S. capital and urged the hemisphere's assembled foreign ministers to clamp enough nonmilitary pressure on Haiti to restore him to office. He suggested sending a delegation to Port-au-Prince to tell the army chiefs, led by Brigadier General Raoul Cedras, an Aristide appointee, "that they must immediately leave the presidential palace" or face total isolation. For his part, Cedras claimed he had stepped in only to quiet rebellious troops in what had begun as a rank-and-file revolt...