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But Haitians living in the U.S. demanded stronger action, including armed intervention to restore Aristide to the presidential palace. Rioters in Miami's "Little Haiti" built bonfires and threw bottles at police. In New York City, several thousand Haitians demonstrated outside U.N. headquarters.
Just what action would be required to reverse the coup was the question addressed by an emergency session of the OAS in 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...
Buoyed by such successes, government agencies and environmental groups have begun to launch restoration projects of unprecedented scale. The Countryside Commission for England and Wales has pledged to reforest 390 sq km (150 sq. mi.) of the industrialized Midlands with 30 million trees. The state of Maine has announced its...
Where no written records exist, restorationists turn to the geological record. Pollen preserved in layers of mud, for example, enabled a University of Arizona scientist to determine that a thousand years ago, the Nature Conservancy's Hassayampa River Preserve near Phoenix was covered by a marshy grassland unique to the...
Earlier comedies have succeeded by tinkering with our standard notions of American life, but in the end they always restore our faith in love, family and, most importantly, the American Sitcom itself.