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...once, the day that Haitians will remember was one of jubilation: their first freely elected President returning in triumph to vanquish the ghosts of the country's past. On that bright Saturday afternoon, as Jean-Bertrand Aristide paced through the ceremonies of reinstatement, his euphoric nation could reasonably embrace the vision he offered them -- that it was their day of deliverance...
Several Harvard students and Professors express cautious optimism that Jean-Bertrand Aristide's return to power Saturday could lead to political and economic improvements in Haiti...
Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was expected to lay out plans for a new democratic government today, but instead fudged on the details and threw an olive branch to Haiti's elite. In his first address since his triumphant return, Aristide, speaking from the National Palace, simply promised a new government of "rich and poor." The rich had feared he would try to redistribute their wealth. Aristide also blamed right-wing foes for paying troublemakers to incite street violence that the rich are blaming on Aristide allies -- particularly an incident early today in which 60 youths looted a store...
...even though "we knew that the people we were paying were killing and torturing people." But, he says, the payoff was information that helped the U.S. land 20,000 troops in Haiti without casualties so far and speed the dismantling of the military regime and restoration of elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Many other people, of course, feel that knowingly paying killers inevitably makes the U.S. morally complicit in their murders, and that is too high an ethical price to pay. Says New Jersey Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli: "Getting good information from bad people is one thing. Contracting with...
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, standing behind a bulletproof shield on which his security detail insisted, pleaded with Haitians to remain calm after enraged supporters killed one man and torched 15 buildings last night. The attack on Gonaives, 100 miles north of Port-au-Prince, followed a false rumor that junta holdover Major General Jean-Claude Duperval -- the Haitian army commander until Aristide names a replacement -- had led a coup against Aristide. This morning the reinstalled President underscored his plea by having Duperval help him raise Haiti's flag at the National Palace. Also today, U.S. forces reported the third suicide...