Word: successor
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...government. While much of the 20,000-strong takeover force is supposed to come home before the November elections, several thousand U.S. troops will stay on as part of a U.N. peacekeeping force until at least February 1996, when Aristide is pledged to yield power to an elected successor. It could well be tricky and dangerous duty that could end in a Somalia-style debacle: withdrawal of U.S. and U.N. troops followed by another coup that returns Haiti to the savage oppression from which the U.S. hopes to rescue...
...French -- the slightly built Roman Catholic priest declared, "We say no to retaliation, no to vengeance." To dispel any thought that the U.S. might be installing by force a new President-for-life, Aristide pledged to abide by his country's constitution and yield his office to an elected successor in February 1996, when his five-year term expires, even though he has spent more than half that term in exile...
...cloak of multinational support, this is from start to finish essentially a U.S. operation. Clinton pledged that the initial American forces would be withdrawn "in months, not years." But even though the U.S. would officially hand over responsibility to a U.N. peacekeeping operation that would stay until Aristide's successor is elected, the President failed to mention that as much as half that U.N. force, or some 3,000 troops, would also be American -- an arrangement similar to the one the U.S. came to regret in Somalia...
Perkins said he does not know when a successor will take over leadership of the institute...
Carnesale said he hopes to be able to settle in at Mass Hall soon. He said he and the Kennedy School faculty, many of whom are already taking concerns to academic dean Alan Altshuler rather than Carnesale, are eager for a successor to be appointed...