Word: diederich
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...haste: President Clinton is due to arrive Friday to declare Haiti safe enough for U.S. troops to hand over security duties to a multinational U.N. force. Aristide asked the FBI to investigate the assassination of ultranationalist Mireille Durocher Bertin. A Haitian government source today told TIME contributor Bernard Diederich that Aristide had advance warning of the killing, and offered Bertin protection. Haitian officials insist that the opposition killed one of its own in order to embarrass Aristide and Clinton...
...with other members of the Assembly to debate and vote on a spate of bills to prepare for ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's return. At the top of their list: an Aristide-backed proposal to grant amnesty to Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras and junta supporters. TIME correspondent Bernard Diederich, who was there, said hundreds of jubilant Haitians surrounded the building, chanting "Handcuff Cedras!" as U.S. troops stood by. A few blocks away, the pro-junta forces struck back, critically wounding one man. Back inside the parliament, a quorum of legislators began debate on the amnesty measure, with a majority...
...second time in seven months, TIME's Edward Barnes, Cathy Booth and Bernard Diederich are in Haiti waiting for the Americans to arrive. Last October the U.S.S. Harlan County, trying to land with a U.N.-sponsored team of military and police advisers, turned back after anti-U.S. mobs demonstrated at the port. This time Barnes, betting things will be different, has rented a room in a "strategically located" brothel with a roof that should command a good view of the first attack. Miami bureau chief Booth spent several days % last week at the army's decrepit general quarters, trying...
Amid their grueling daily rounds, in which comforts are few and harassment of foreign journalists is growing -- friskings are common, and Barnes has twice been detained by police -- the reporters feel a dispiriting sense of deja vu. "For older Haitians," says Diederich, who once ran the newspaper Haiti Sun, "the current crisis is like a rerun of an old horror movie." Diederich had just been expelled from Haiti when "Papa Doc" Duvalier thwarted President Kennedy's attempt to remove him from power in 1963. "The lesson of Papa Doc's defying the U.S. has not been lost on those...
...Diederich's expertise and inside knowledge have been an invaluable resource for two other TIME correspondents who, along with photographer James Nachtwey, are covering the Haiti story. "He has an unsurpassed sense of Haitian history," says Edward Barnes, who wrote a recent story on Haitian refugees after months of difficult duty in Bosnia. "He is, simply, the best in the Caribbean." Says Cathy Booth, our Miami bureau chief, who was also in Haiti last week: "Bernie is indispensable for knowing good sources long before they become famous." Supplementing Diederich's contacts were sources tapped by chief political correspondent Michael Kramer...