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President Ertha Pascal-Trouillot was at home with her family when an army tank driver knocked on her door at 10 p.m. As gunfire echoed in the distance, he told her there was trouble and that she would be safer at the presidential palace, three miles away in Port-au-Prince, the capital. On the way, the driver stopped to pick up a second passenger, a heavyset, balding man whom Pascal-Trouillot could not identify in the dark. Only after arriving at the palace did the President learn that her companion was Dr. Roger Lafontant, former head of the Tontons...
...even later should President Bush take a bit longer to gear up for war. If the Iraqi dictator tries some final maneuver to forestall the assault, says William Quandt, a leading American expert on the Middle East, he will spring it "when he hears the tank motors...
...then force or lure the U.S. and its allies into a series of grinding, fearsomely bloody frontal assaults on heavily dug-in Iraqi positions -- a recrudescence, 75-odd years later, of World War I-style trench warfare. That would be accompanied by some of the biggest tank battles ever fought, which would also be destructive and bloody. The allies might suffer huge losses so quickly that they would speedily sue for peace or perhaps accede to a panicky U.N. call for a cease-fire (shades of Nasser in 1956). If not, a drawn-out war might fan the worst American...
...windows. Though most soldiers apparently fired blanks and only one colonel used live ammunition, eight people were reported wounded, one young man shot in the face. As air-raid sirens shrilled across the cobblestone streets of the capital's center, angry young civilians at the publishing center surrounded a tank. "Why are you here?" they screamed at a crew member. "What are you doing?" Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis, charging that troops were "spilling blood," placed an urgent call to Mikhail Gorbachev. The Soviet President could not come to the phone, Landsbergis was told; he was having lunch...
...deadline for Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait expires this week, he fears that American and allied planes will bomb Baghdad and that his hospital will be overwhelmed with the wounded. "It will be a disaster," says Roubayee, who once served as a medic in an Iraqi army tank unit. "Doctors are very anxious. You have patients dying in front of you, and there is nothing you can do about it. We hope there will...