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...solution to Haiti's miseries lies in compromise, Jean-Bertrand Aristide has now gone at least half the distance separating him and his adversaries. In a radio address taped from exile in Washington, the Caribbean nation's first democratically elected President reiterated an offer of political amnesty to the army commanders who deposed him 18 months ago. In return for such a pardon, Aristide demanded reinstatement as President and pleaded with the military to "suspend your killing...
...that the fleeing Haitians are economic refugees, and therefore unworthy of political asylum. Unfortunately, it is not so easy to distinguish between the two in a country where people are routinely punished for real or suspected political sympathies. Since a military coup overthrew the democratically elected government of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991, Amnesty International has documented thousands of beatings, detentions, tortures, "disappearances" and deaths in Haiti...
...pinning their hopes on a political settlement that will make Haitians want to stay home. For the first time since last February, diplomats are finding signs of life in the talks the U.N. and the Organization of American States are sponsoring in an effort to restore democracy and reinstate Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the democratically elected President who was ousted in a September 1991 coup...
...effort to forestall a massive refugee influx from Haiti, both the old and new White House Administrations were pushing for a political settlement between the military and ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Last week, however, the boats kept coming: a record boatload of 352 Haitian refugees sailed up the Miami River...
...Haitian priest and aide to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide says President ) Bush lost the election because he is under a voodoo curse. No wonder he couldn't shake the voodoo economics habit! Was Ronald Reagan a victim...