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...turned out to be a general without an army. In an unprecedented gesture of support for democracy, the Haitian military, led by army Chief of Staff General Herard Abraham, declared its allegiance to the government. Less than 12 hours after the coup began, soldiers stormed the palace, freed Pascal-Trouillot and dragged off Lafontant and 15 of his henchmen in handcuffs...
...Freed from the fetters of Constitutional separation of powers, Bush has a free hand to do as he sees fit after tomorrow's U.N. deadline. By all rights, Bush can take the country to war. That doesn't mean he should...
...passage of a new law that -- like laws of most other states -- recognizes the "battered woman syndrome" as a legal defense. The Governor reviewed the cases of 105 women who had not been allowed to use that defense before the new Ohio rules went into effect. He freed 21 who had already spent two years behind bars and said four others could leave after completing two years. He ordered all of them to perform 200 hours of community service...
Things moved very fast after that. If Gorbachev was the final policymaker, Shevardnadze was the executor of his wishes as Eastern Europe freed itself and lingering regional disputes were defused in southern Africa, Central America and Southeast Asia. Negotiations that had been stalled for years or decades , suddenly bore fruit: intermediate-range missiles had already been abolished in 1987, but a treaty mandating major reductions in conventional forces in Europe was signed last month; and the START pact cutting strategic nuclear forces is to be signed in February...
...conference ended with a warning that the A.N.C. would pull out of talks with Pretoria unless the government freed all political prisoners and permitted all exiles to return by next April 30. Delegates also threatened a campaign of strikes and boycotts to back up their demands. President F.W. de Klerk warned in turn against such "outmoded" radicalism, calling on the A.N.C. to decide whether it wanted peaceful, negotiated solutions or a return to the confrontations of the past...