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...appalled," thundered candidate Bill Clinton when he learned that George Bush would return all Haitian boat people, including political refugees fleeing for their lives, to the tender mercies of Haiti's military junta. "It is a blow to America's moral authority in defending the rights of refugees around the world." Last week President Clinton announced that he would extend the Bush approach to refugees from Cuba. It was the first time the U.S. has ever endorsed the forcible return of refugees to a communist country...
...interview withTIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothlast fall, Durocher Bertin -- a prominent supporter of the departed military junta -- repeatedly worried that she would be murdered after Aristide's return: "My life and my family will be in great danger.Bill Clinton will be held responsiblefor every life of every Haitian killed by Aristide's people on his return. I hold him responsible for mine...
Former President Jimmy Carter touched down in Haiti for the first time since his freelance diplomatic efforts in September persuaded the country's ruling junta to leave. Carter, who oversaw Haiti's first democratic vote in 1990, plans to help in preparations for the country's next round of elections in June. He'll be joined in Port-au-Prince Friday by the other members of the U.S. negotiating trio, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell. Still, the former president is less than popular in Haiti, where many resent the fact that...
Nevertheless, the Clinton Administration has decided after a long review to offer Burma some incentives for better behavior, hoping that one payoff will be serious help in combatting heroin. A U.S. delegation will meet this week in Rangoon with junta leaders, who have just visited opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The junta has kept her under house arrest since July 1989. Diplomats will continue to emphasize human rights, but "our efforts at pure isolation have not been tremendously successful," acknowledges Robert Gelbard, Assistant Secretary of State in charge of narcotics matters. One result of the new policy should...
...diplomats argue that putting too much emphasis on drugs is parochial and that the DEA often gets manipulated by corrupt governments. The junta, they say, set up splashy drug busts for the Americans that traffickers were happy to treat as a cost of doing business. "The DEA," says an intelligence source,"was being played for a patsy by a bunch of Burmese military folks who were getting a cut of the action...