Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bloody wound on the crown of his head, where another child had struck him with a rock in a fight over food. "The food is not enough," he says. "I want to go home." And still there is no safety. Early last week relief workers spotted a Hutu soldier going from tent to tent with a grenade in his hand, looking for Tutsi children to kill...
...were to replace General Cedras with Aristide, it would only exchange on dictator for another. There is no point in asking any American soldier or sailor to risk his life for that...
Thermil Salem is a soldier who worked as a driver for a group of antigang policemen who are feared for their brutality. Secretly, Salem supported President Aristide. "My teeth cannot speak about those days," he says. He served two jail terms. Living outside Port-au-Prince in a brick hut that also serves as a voodoo temple, he never goes out now. "They have spies all around," he says...
...public seems confused and ambivalent. Among 600 people questioned in a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, 50% agreed with the proposition that "nothing the U.S. could accomplish in Haiti is worth the death of even one U.S. soldier," vs. 39% who disagreed. But when respondents were asked whether they approved of "sending U.S. troops to Haiti along with troops from other countries," the breakdown was almost the exact opposite: 51% in favor, 39% opposed. Unilateral intervention, on the other hand, drew only 17% support, with 75% against the idea...
Lieutenant Flap, a black soldier with an outsize Afro, joins Beetle Bailey. Three Southern newspapers refuse to run any Flap strips...