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...Washington promised more than it could deliver. The military has not proved adept at manhunts: it failed to arrest Aidid or kill Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and spent two frustrating weeks before it arrested Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said two weeks ago that the apprehension of Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and the Haitian junta is a "dead certainty," but such comments make Pentagon officials very nervous...
...troops to an invasion force. Tiny as that number is, it accomplishes one step needed before D-day: throwing a "multinational" cloak over the operation. Deputy Secretary of Defense John Deutch declared that a "multinational" force would go into Haiti, peacefully or otherwise. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott added that if the Cedras clique was still in power when the troops arrived, its members would be arrested and turned over to a restored Aristide government...
...lead a coalition that will enter Haiti one way or another -- either by force or to clean up the country after Haiti's military junta leaves. "The multinational force is going to Haiti," Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch vowed. At the same news conference, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said the use of force would be "a last resort." Confused? The renewed U.S. saber rattling prompted some bluff calling from unofficial intermediary Randall Robinson, executive director of the TransAfrica, who demanded the Administration give the junta 48 hours to get out. BTW: Robinson complained that the Clinton Administration...
...possible U.S. invasion. At a meeting in Kingston, Jamaica, senior U.S. officials elicited the troop promises from Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and Belize, but the three other Caribbean Community members with armies -- Guyana, the Bahamas and Antigua -- balked at the last minute without immediate explanation. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch said the multinational force would begin training in Puerto Rico and enter Haiti after the military junta departs -- either peacefully or post-invasion. For all the talk, says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, no deadline for an invasion has been determined, and the Jamaica...
Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott was vocal too -- more so than his boss, Warren Christopher -- in insisting that the time for negotiations had passed. It would be morally distasteful, Talbott declared, to help set up the junta's leaders outside Haiti. Perry countered that Talbott's inflexibility represented a peculiar morality. The U.S., he said, should explore all peaceful alternatives before risking American lives and hundreds of millions of dollars to oust Haiti's bosses...