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...invasion "would be over in a matter of hours, at most a day or two." TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson reports that according to Pentagon sources, the latest scheme has elite Navy SEALs doing the initial dirty work. U.S. war plans then call for 4,000 troops from the aircraft carriers U.S.S. America and U.S.S. Eisenhower to move into and around Port-au-Prince, while 1,800 Marines from a "WASP" amphibious assault ship would secure Haiti's north. And those multinational forces? Caribbeans and others won't move in until everything's already peaceful: "This is an all-American...
Hours before President Clinton's scheduled 9 p.m. EDT address to make his case for a Haiti invasion, he activated 1,600 military reservists. Excerpts from Clinton's remarks, released late this afternoon as two U.S. aircraft carriers swept toward the island nation's coastline, contain a final warning to the Haitian military leadership: "Your time is up. Leave now or we will force you from power." Haiti's ruling triumvirate sent mixed signals: Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, the capo, told CBS News he was prepared to leave "under certain conditions" but that he had flatly rejected a reported...
...that they'll fight the charges. In statements released to The Daily Oklahoman, all denied criminal conduct in the tragedy that claimed the lives of 26 people. The Air Force has accused the AWACS crew members of failing to tell F-15 pilots who shot down the helicopters the aircraft was American. One of the jet pilots has been charged with negligent homicide...
...AWACS radar plane involved in last April's shooting down of two U.S. Army helicopters over Iraq be court-martialed for dereliction of duty. A Defense Department study found that the AWACS crew failed to warn U.S. fighter pilots that the helicopters were American Black Hawks, not Iraqi aircraft. Twenty-six U.S. and foreign personnel were killed in the incident. An Air Force general must now decide whether the crew will stand trial...
...Frank Eugene Corder, was killed. The Secret Service said this afternoon that Corder, a freight truck driver, had "a prior history of mental illness" and had been distraught over the death of his father and the recent breakup of his marriage. They don't believe he had directed the aircraft at Clinton. The President's reply: "We take this incident seriously because the White House is the people's house, and it's the job of every President who lives here to keep it safe and secure." Corder somehow managed to elude elaborate security precautions, including Stinger missiles that were...