Word: bertrand
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...days after addressing the United Nations General Assembly last week, Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide sat down in his New York hotel room with TIME's Amy Wilentz, author of The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier. In his first interview in print since the U.S. went into Haiti, the returning leader talked candidly about Haitian justice, the U.S. role in his country and his hopes for the future...
...come home. "We are at a point where the baton is ready to be passed." In fact, if anything was ending it was only the first -- and easiest -- phase of the operation. Now the U.S. faces the more difficult challenge of making Haiti safe for returning President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, expected to arrive by the end of the week. The U.S. had counted on leaving most of the dirty work of policing a volatile nation to rapidly reformed Haitian security forces. But as American military leaders realized by last week, they could not hope to preserve Haiti's army...
...President Jean-Bertrand Aristide who is scheduled to return to Haiti on Saturday, Clearly is a transient figure. He has provided no credible vision for Haiti's future and seems vague about the details of governing. The Clinton Administration's conditional support for Aristide is an appropriate response...
Hundreds of U.S. troops occupied Haiti's National Palace this afternoon, helping supporters of returning President Jean-Bertrand Aristide free the government of junta influence down to the last paper-shuffler. Now that Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras has stepped down, Aristide's Cabinet ministers fired all employees hired under the junta's civilian figurehead government and took over ministry offices. Aristide, meanwhile, plans to return to Haiti in grand style Saturday, with three planes stuffed with so many guests that the State Department is complaining. In addition to Secretary of State Warren Christopher, the party includes the Rev. Jesse Jackson...
...understand it," she says. Raymond Kelly, the former NYPD chiefnow helping to rebuild the Haitian force, said he was having trouble getting thecops onto the streets at all. Without Haitian security, U.S. forces are fearingthey may have to fire on looting pro-democracy Haitians if the returningPresident Jean Bertrand Aristide can't control his people. "So much depends onAristide, and there is so little trust, even among the Americans at theembassy," says Michaels. "They have their fingers crossed and their toescrossed...