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...capos' wake, the police and armyhave become utterly demoralized and ceased to be a power in Haiti, TIME writerMarguerite Michaels reports from Port-au-Prince. "It's not a police force in anysense that we understand it," she says. Raymond Kelly, the former NYPD chiefnow helping to rebuild the Haitian force, said he was having trouble getting thecops onto the streets at all. Without Haitian security, U.S. forces are fearingthey may have to fire on looting pro-democracy Haitians if the returningPresident Jean Bertrand Aristide can't control his people. "So much depends onAristide, and there is so little trust...
...Disarmament is one step towards eliminating some of the structural defects in the Haitian government as it now exists," said Peter Reich, professor at the Whittier College School of Law. "The Haitian government is totally out of control. Devoting less money to the military will help Haiti rebuild the rest of its economy...
...very same. In case you missed Quayle's Nightline appearance two weeks ago, he's back and beginning to rebuild his public image. After Clinton defeated Bush in the '92 race, Quayle did the intelligent thing for a vice-president on a losing ticket with future ambitions--he dropped out of night. He began work on a book and continued to maintain a low profile for the beginning of the new administration. And now that Clinton is faltering, sure enough; here comes Dan Quayle's name again--this time sounding much more mature and more presidential than before...
Relief officials all agree the only real hope for the Rwandan people is for them to return to their country, retrieve their farms and rebuild their homes and their lives. "The longer the refugees stay here, the more explosive it becomes," says the World Food Program's Daan Everts. "It's like a time bomb. The exodus has to be undone." The newly installed government called for all refugees to come home and promised that no revenge would be sought on the civilian population. "I'm not interested in leading a country that is considered a desert," Prime Minister Faustin...
This scarcity is partly due to the disappearance of lenders who were among the largest providers of capital to the world during the 1980s. One of these is Germany: unification has required it to borrow tens of billions of dollars abroad to rebuild its eastern sector. In Japan a severe recession and the collapse of the country's financial markets have forced banks and companies to all but halt new overseas investments. And oil-rich Arab states like Saudi Arabia, which once exported capital, are borrowing heavily to finance arms purchases in the wake of the Gulf...