Word: tammerlin
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...quoted as saying in an interview with Libete, an independent Creole-language weekly newspaper that he founded and directs. The Clinton Administration has been downplaying a spate of killings and riots in the last two weeks after Aristide made incendiary remarks about political opponents and elites. TIME's Tammerlin Drummond reports that the timing couldn't have been worse for Clinton: "Haiti was one of his great foreign policy achievements. Now it may be unraveling just as he is trying to deal with Bosnia." Elections are scheduled for December 17, but Aristide is barred by the Constitution from running...
...Deputies are due for August runoffs. Aristide, whose term ends next February, cannot succeed himself, but has said he might run again in 2000.TINDER BOX? Insiders say that the Port-au-Prince mayoral election results are so explosive that public reaction to them could jeopardize national stability, TIME's Tammerlin Drummond reports. Haitian folk singer Mano Charlemagne, the putative winner, performs songs urging his fellow countrymen to kill all former Tontons Macoutes and dump their corpses on the doorstep of the U.S. special forces. At a recent campaign rally, he suddenly whipped out a .45-caliber pistol from his belt...
...Reported by Hannah Bloch/Washington, Bernard Diederich/Port-au-Prince and Tammerlin Drummond/ Cap Haitien
...Reported by Sam Allis/Norman, Patrick E. Cole, Tammerlin Drummond, S.C. Gwynne, William McWhirter and Ann M. Simmons/Oklahoma City
...less-than-ideal situation. The worst thing is that we still don't have a deal. The best thing is that we have done such irreparable harm to the game that the players and owners have to work together to win back the fans." --With reporting by Tammerlin Drummond/Homestead