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Aristide's gesture came amid a flurry of other diplomatic activity. The Clinton Administration let it be known that the U.S. might send a contingent of military advisers to help rebuild the impoverished nation following Aristide's return. The United Nations' special envoy for Haitian affairs, Argentine Dante Caputo, arrived in Port-au-Prince to serve as a mediator in the expected negotiations. But army commanders declined to meet with him, flatly rejecting the amnesty offer...
What has aggravated the city's racial divisiveness is the lack of a strong economy to rebuild on. Los Angeles remains mired in a three-year recession, with a countywide 10.4% unemployment rate, 3 1/2 points higher than the U.S. average. In poor black neighborhoods, the rate is as high as 50%. The peace dividend of the post-cold war era has landed like a bomb in the Los Angeles area, wiping out 110,000 defense-industry jobs so far and possibly another 50,000 more by the end of next year. Many manufacturing jobs, which supported the city...
...Reaganesque idea that the entire job of turning the city around could be accomplished by a volunteer group headed by a miracle-working entrepreneur. Mayor Bradley appointed Peter Ueberroth, former baseball commissioner and the organizer of the profitmaking 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, to head an organization called Rebuild L.A. One of the first mistakes, as Ueberroth himself admits, was the name, which was too expansive and has been changed to RLA, intended to sound like the more neighborly phrase...
...dark days just after the riot, Los Angeles needed a dose of hopeful talk. But people who came to Rebuild L.A. looking for quick help to rebuild ruined businesses were disappointed. RLA had no money of its own to disperse. It was conceived to facilitate the efforts of others, a mission that presumed there would be a multitude of efforts to facilitate. Ueberroth hoped that the rebuilding drive would rest on a tripod of government, private-sector and community-based efforts. But government on all levels shrugged and turned out its empty pockets. An emergency urban-aid package of federal...
...former Prime Minister Aldo Moro following his kidnapping by the Red Brigades in 1978 and of General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, head of anti-Mafia operations in Sicily, in 1982, were being scrutinized anew. So was the embezzlement, allegedly by Christian Democrats, of $40 billion in aid intended to rebuild several southern cities after the 1980 earthquake, and the disappearance of huge sums of Third World development aid said to have been plundered by officials in Rome...