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When the general left to return home and pack, much of the crowd crossed the street to the National Palace to call for the resignation of Emile Jonassaint, the puppet president installed by the military earlier this year. The next morning, after 500 U.S. soldiers took over the National Palace and other government buildings, they began escorting Jonassaint's ministers to the door and clearing a path for Aristide's men to move in. By Wednesday, the octogenarian president had announced his resignation. That set the stage for removing the final obstacle to the exiled President's return: actually getting...
...working to repair the President's white, two-story residence, which police had stripped and looted even of window frames after he fled the country. In the capital, the presidential palace is also in bad shape, but no restoration work can be scheduled until the de facto president, Emile Jonassaint, is pushed out -- possibly this week. Haitians say he is booby-trapping the palace with voodoo charms to thwart Aristide...
...delegations drove over to the Presidential Palace. Carter and Nunn went in one car, and Powell rode with Cedras, straddling a pile of rifle grenades. And then came the final standoff. Jonassaint convened the Cabinet, and the agreement was on the table. Said Nunn: "It became very apparent that General Cedras was not going to ever say, 'I agree.' " Then Carter dramatically reached out and signed the agreement himself. Would the Haitians respond? Who among them would sign...
...Jonassaint went around the room consulting the Cabinet. The defense and information ministers objected to the deal. Nevertheless, Jonassaint said, "I will sign. I will not let my people experience this tragedy. Our back is against the wall." Said Nunn: "We were in one heck of a fix because President Clinton had told us that we could not get the signature of president Jonassaint, whom we didn't recognize. Cedras said it was a court-martial offense for him to sign for the government because he wasn't the government." Nunn turned to Carter. "We can't do this unless...
With Clinton's approval in hand, Jonassaint signed the agreement. The Defense Minister quit on the spot. Cedras sat mute. Then Powell asked him point-blank if he would accept the agreement. Cedras stood erect and pledged his word of honor that he would "obey the command of my president...