Word: raoule
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remarks, released late this afternoon as two U.S. aircraft carriers swept toward the island nation's coastline, contain a final warning to the Haitian military leadership: "Your time is up. Leave now or we will force you from power." Haiti's ruling triumvirate sent mixed signals: Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, the capo, told CBS News he was prepared to leave "under certain conditions" but that he had flatly rejected a reported U.S. offer to slip away into cushy exile. He also warned that a "long, extended civil war and a bloodbath" would follow his departure...
Simultaneously, in case Haiti's rulers thought Washington had stopped paying attention to them, the State Department and Pentagon joined in reviving earlier threats of a U.S. invasion, whooping it up as inevitable. As theater, it was the kind of showy saber rattling Haitian Army Chief Raoul Cedras and his cronies have grown used to ignoring. While some officials publicly speculated about the number of troops needed (12,000 to 13,000), the likely cost ($427 million) and a possible date (mid-October), President Clinton still has not given the go-ahead...
When the President next focuses on his Haiti problem, he will be faced with some basic decisions. Should he set a deadline, public or private, for Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and his cronies to step down? Should he send a special envoy to Port-au-Prince to issue an ultimatum? Now that the U.N. has given its blessing to the use of "all necessary means" to restore Haiti's popularly elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power, should Clinton ask Congress for its support -- and could he get it? Most important, Clinton must decide whether an invasion is a good...
...action -- when all they're doing is waiting to see if the U.S. will invade. "If this were a card game," he says, "there's only one card left, and that's the ace": invasion. Meanwhile, Barnes reports, the U.S.-led embargo is proving a flop. Lieut. General Raoul Cedras is rumored to be making $50,000 a day off the black market, and Haiti's civilian elite have every luxury "but Kellogg's corn flakes . . . By the time the embargo reaches the well-to-do, there probably won't be a country left to save...
...White House isn't impressed with hints from Haiti's military that it would dump its leader if the U.S. would back off from invasion. A tentative offer from senior Haitian military officers would have sacrificed their capo, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, if the U.S. dropped demands for the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide--and eased a trade embargo that's only now beginning to squeeze the ruling elite. But today, White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said the U.S. was still pushing for a United Nations resolution to "remove the dictators by any means necessary." Meanwhile...