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...continuing violence apparently has U.S. officials on edge. Defense Secretary William Perry, in France, said Port-au-Prince will be "blanketed with soldiers" in a U.S. effort to keep peace. At the White House, President Clinton extended a declaration of national emergency over Haiti, but officials said U.S. troop levels probably won't swell above the current...
...forces in Haiti -- expected to number 8,500 by tonight -- would "work to moderate the conduct of Haitian security forces without assuming their responsibilities." That's fine with the Senate, which echoed a testy action taken by the House on Monday by voting 95 to 4 to support U.S.-troop withdrawal sooner rather than later...
...Christopher's threat that the Haitian military government's "days are definitely numbered," the Pentagon said a fleet of giant cargo ships and an aircraft carrier crammed with helicopters would soon be bound for the waters off the Haitian coast. The Defense Department also announced that the total U.S. troop participation in an invasion of Haiti would be around 20,000 -- higher than previous estimates...
...Haiti's leaders out of power a failure, after the junta refused to meet with a U.N. envoy Monday. And today, four Carribean countries agreed to supply 266 peacekeeping soldiers to police Haiti after a 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...
...South Vietnam, a Viet Cong offensive along the Cambodian border marks the end of a two-month lull in fighting and delays President Nixon's decision on further U.S. troop withdrawals...