Word: raoule
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anker and the other signatories said they hope the terms of Clinton's September 18 negotiations with Haiti will be toughened. Under the present agreement, coup leader Raoul Cedras and his officials will resign on October 15, possibly with amnesty granted by the Haitian parliament...
...apparently killed himself in a mansion being prepared for Haitian dignitaries. Military police strung concertina wire in front of the white colonnaded Parliament, where the lawmakers are expected to vote on an amnesty for the military junta -- a key part of the quickie deal between capo Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and former President Jimmy Carter...
...peace a chance. Even as American warships reached their invasion stations off the shores of Haiti, and the President faced the moment when he would have to issue the order for U.S. troops to go in shooting, a tense weekend of negotiations was devoted to the possibility that strongman Raoul Cedras and the rest of the ruling Haitian military clique had finally got the message and were ready to quit. At the 11th hour, the President proved willing to talk...
...would lead a high-level delegation to Haiti for one last try at getting the junta to step down. The 11th-hour mission, which also includes former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell and Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn, left Saturday amid rumors that Haitian strongman Raoul Cedras and his two top aides were at last considering a peaceful departure...
...will be able to wire money to their families. The move, Clinton said, was prompted by a gesture Sunday from exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who called on the Haitian parliament to vote Wednesday on granting amnesty to junta supporters.IN HAITI . . . WHO'S AFRAID OF RAOUL? Two days after U.S. Marines shot and killed 10 armed Haitian police, U.S. military police occupied five of Port-au-Prince's main police stations after hundreds of emboldened pro-U.S. demonstrators surrounded the buildings. Elsewhere, hundreds more protesters surrounded the army headquarters, where Haitian junta leader Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras...