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...considering military protection to help deliver food. Agencies argue that helicopter gunships, armored cars and communications equipment are needed to run rebel blockades. So far, however, no Western nation has agreed to provide weapons or materiel. The U.S. position is complicated by a split between the Reagan Administration and staunch conservative allies like Republican Senator Jesse Helms. While the White House views Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano as a pragmatic leftist who wants to improve ties with the West, Helms has called loudly for rebel aid. In a fit of pique, Helms last year blocked the appointment of Wells as Ambassador...
Last June voters in Los Angeles ousted City Council President Pat Russell, a staunch ally of Mayor Tom Bradley and developers, replacing her with an unknown who promised to slam the brakes on overbuilding. Bradley has now modified his pro-growth policies to protect his chances for re-election...
...secretary-general of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, and chatted by phone with Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. Roh promised to seek improved relations with China after he takes office on Feb. 25. Any warming between the two nations could reduce tensions between Seoul and Communist North Korea, a staunch Beijing ally...
...Haitian opposition, factious even in the best of times, is divided over what steps should be taken to achieve that goal. Some are advocating a boycott of any government-sponsored elections. Three trade unions have called for a general strike to begin this week. Many Haitians, even staunch nationalists in the slums and the posh capital suburbs, are calling for foreign intervention of some sort. A few are counseling insurrection. Says Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, 34, a firebrand priest popular with the poor: "There is only one avenue to take, and that is revolution...
After the guns and the machetes had finished their gruesome work last week, Haiti's election-day bloodbath claimed another victim: U.S. support for the provisional government of Lieut. General Henri Namphy. Having insisted for months that Namphy was a staunch friend of democracy, despite mounting evidence to the contrary, White House officials were suddenly scrambling for a new policy to help restore order and ensure free elections. The search quickly swelled into an international debate over how far the U.S. and other countries should go to intervene in the affairs of Haiti. At the center of the dispute...