Word: bertrand
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...remark might have been uncharitably cynical were the official not standing directly across from the National Palace. While that building's facade has also been given an impressive face-lift to honor the Oct. 15 return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the state of affairs inside Haiti's house of state is considerably shabbier. The departing military-backed government ransacked the palace so thoroughly that executives at the nerve center of Haiti's government now have no vehicles, computers or typewriters, almost no pencils, only one toilet -- and just $11.5 million in the treasury on Aristide's return...
...panel moves from the courtly, bland and ineffectual Democrat Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island to the reactionary Helms, who promises to let few Administration positions go unquestioned. Helms has always been a bomb thrower, unafraid of blowing up reputations abroad and at home. He likened Haitian leader Jean- Bertrand Aristide to Adolf Hitler. He still refers to the world's most populous country as "Red" China. He stuck up for the architects of apartheid over the black majority in South Africa and once accused Reagan-era Secretary of State George Shultz of "playing footsie with the communists." Last year, after...
...midst of this profound moral confusion, the Haiti crisis came like a test from on high. Here were good and evil laid out in black and white, or rather, black and creamy mulatto: the pastel luxury of Petionville vs. the dark, bottomless misery of the shantytowns. And in Jean-Bertrand Aristide, here was as Christ-like a figure as ever headed a state: devout, dedicated to the poor, and celibate on top of all that. Yet from Clinton's flip-flops to Carter's flirtation with Cedras, we dithered shamefully. Even after the troops had arrived, it was unclear...
Powell's sad life and wondrous music were in large part the inspiration for filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier's fond 1986 jazz eulogy, 'Round Midnight, but what is so imposing about the music on these CDs -- immediately, insistently impressive -- is not the sorrow but the vigor. Powell's may have been a troubled spirit, compromised and violated, but it was never stilled...
...Jean-Bertrand Aristide pledged to appoint a Cabinet not only of the poor, whose cause he championed, but also of the wealthy elite -- the very people who helped oust him from power three years ago. A diverse government, he insisted, would prevent upheaval and ease the transition to democracy. Meanwhile, with the cost of gasoline soaring to $37.50 per gal. on the black market, the U.S. and Aristide signed a $15 million agreement to stabilize prices...