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...that's exactly what Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has on his hands these days. In office for only three months, he insists he is trying to reform the nation; but political violence has left several people shot and a schoolgirl killed in a bomb blast--and new questions about whether Aristide is still the populist hero the U.S. saved seven years ago or a Creole caudillo who may send another tsunami of Haitian boat people onto beaches run by Bush's brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush. "Americans," says Aristide, 47, "ought to know that I am the democrat they...
...fierce desire to sell himself abroad as a modernizer. Haiti certainly needs it. The country suffers 80% unemployment, and Colombian drug traffickers have begun using the island as a transit lounge. So, inside Tabarre, his heavily guarded Port-au-Prince residence, he is showing a new persona: nouveau Jean-Bertrand, a genial statesman-cum-Chamber of Commerce President. "Life is a daily dialectical movement for me," says the ex-priest in a rare interview with TIME. "I pay attention to the global economy now, and I have to be realistic. Haiti needs investors...
...rule; in Budapest. On the second day of the uprising, Obersovszky founded an independent newspaper, Truth, and after the revolt's repression launched a samizdat called We Are Alive. Sentenced to hang for organizing demonstrations against the Red Army, Obersovszky was saved after the intervention of Western intellectuals, including Bertrand Russell...
...different as Laurel and Hardy. Conservative Philippe Séguin, 57, is corpulent and earthy, with a resonant bass voice and an addiction to unfiltered Gitanes. Socialist Bertrand Delanoë, 50, an avowed homosexual, is soft-spoken and ascetic-looking with a gift for irony and a penchant for slim cigarillos. Séguin, a former Minister of Labor and ex-president of the National Assembly, is a man of national ambitions who dreams of occupying the Elysée Palace. Delanoë, apart from one term in Parliament, has spent his entire political career as a party activist...
Back in Haiti, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the former priest who took up his second term of office earlier this month, has promised to address the keeping of restaveks--which is technically illegal there. In an interview with TIME, Aristide called the practice "one of the cancers on our social body in Haiti that keep democracy from growing." He pledged to enforce the law but noted that "this first requires an intense education policy, because it is so ingrained in Haiti that too many people don't even know they are breaking the law." At least now, word is finally...