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...Isoventionism, Part I A ship carrying lightly armed U.S. and Canadian troops, sent as part of an agreement between the United Nations and the Haitian military that aims to restore President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power, was unable to dock in Haiti last week because a violent mob of army-backed civilians threatened the troops' safety. The U.N. Security Council later voted to reactivate an oil- and-arms embargo on Haiti, which will take effect this week if the Haitian military does not abide by the accord. President Clinton has ordered six Navy vessels into the area to enforce...
Right now Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's scheduled return to office seems a bit dicey, but he should take heart from a series of recent amazing resurrections of leaders around the world. And remember: Gorbachev is mulling a run for the Russian presidency...
...large protest strikes on June 17. But labor leaders aren't the only ones feeling hoodwinked on the issue. "The right is in the process of creating social policies of revenge against all the employees of this country," said Socialist legislator Henri Emmanuelli. Nor was dismayed reaction to Bertrand's text limited to the left of the political spectrum. Laurence Parisot, president of the Medef employer's organization which is signatory to the agreements with unions, also disagreed with Bertrand's intended power play. "It was hardly a month ago that an accord was concluded, and the accord...
...Sounds good, but unions, leftist opponents, and even most French pundits say the new rules as conceived by Bertrand's law will allow business to impose their requirements and conditions for overtime on employees, rendering the 35-hour law obsolete even if it remains on the books. But given the topic's hot-button status, some pundits warn Bertrand and the government against trying to have its cake and eat it. The last time someone in tried getting tricky with cake during a tense summer in Paris was Marie-Antoinette - and we know how she ended...
...Kouchner, who has remained discreet on the subject? Or the French President, who tends to express himself on the matter with all the clarity of a sphinx? The diversity of voices characteristic of a true democracy is difficult to grasp for a nondemocratic culture. The Socialist Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, made the Dalai Lama and Hu Jia, a prominent Chinese dissident, honorary citizens of his city at the very moment French official envoys were in China to make nice. Though the mayor's move was designed to embarrass the French President as much as to express support...