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Then the big U.S. military machine shifted gears again. As its troop levels reached 12,000 on the way up to 15,000, its power began to spread across Haiti and through the capital. The U.S. commander, Lieut. General Henry Hugh Shelton, a big, jut-jawed Ranger, told the Haitian leaders there would be no more police violence -- or else. Haiti's military chief, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, quickly agreed. American military police took to the streets, patrolling and even directing traffic, while U.S. troops neutralized Haitian army and police posts. There were perils: Marines engaged Haitians in a firefight...
...woman who packed a pistol in her bra -- a crowd of club-wielding pro-democracy demonstrators surged into the compound, trashing and smashing anything within reach. The U.S. soldiers let the frenzy continue for an hour before dispersing the crowd. The American commander in Haiti, Lt. Gen. Hugh Shelton, said the detainees would be released into custody of the legitimate Haitian government when exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is returned to power later this month...
...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 was meeting with U.S. Ambassador William Swing and Lt. Gen. Hugh Shelton, the American military commander in Haiti. The demonstration evaporated a few hours later. Cedras also went on the radio calling for civilians to surrender their arms to U.S. soldiers. A gun buyback begins Tuesday -- $50 for handguns and $300 for mortars -- but TIME correspondent Cathy Booth, in Port-au-Prince...
Another Wimbledon upset shook men's tennis today, as the world's No. 2 player, Michael Stich, was soundly defeated by Bryan Shelton, who is ranked No. 120. This victory marked the second time in as many days that an outranked American has ousted a favored German, after Lori McNeil beat Steffi Graf yesterday in the first round. Taking advantage of the unpredictable grass courts and his opponent's bad temper, Shelton consistently outplayed and outclassed Stich. Shelton says that he was inspired by his fellow Yank's earlier win, and hopes that their achievements as African-American tennis players...
Morality is the ostensible subject of Blue Chips, from a script Shelton wrote in 1980. A college coach (Nick Nolte) fights for traditional values against venal alumni who want to buy the best players. But the film avoids the hard truth that even traditional values in big-time college sports are a shuck. Education is just the fig leaf for the only multibillion-dollar entertainment conglomerate in which the entertainers (the players) don't get paid. The Nolte character, like any college coach, is the overseer of slave labor...