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...rules, but his lawyer has provided TIME with a long letter he wrote to Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel detailing Horn's allegations. It recounts that Horn and Franklin Huddle, the embassy's charge d'affaires, clashed over a report to Washington & that Horn thought unfairly denigrated the junta's antidrug efforts. Horn says Huddle refused to obtain expert help from the U.S. to draft manuals for Burmese police and prosecutors implementing new drug laws, but did approve training at the CIA for Burmese intelligence officers. He claims that the CIA divulged the name of a DEA informant to the junta...
That is what drove Horn to push for better cooperation with Burma's military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council. He and his DEA bosses concluded there was no other way to hurt Burma's drug kingpins like Khun Sa, who has some 20,000 men organizing production and distribution routes. But that goal collided with the main thrust of U.S. policy. After the junta nullified an election and killed thousands of protesters, the U.S. cut off aid and trade privileges and then refused to send a new ambassador. Ever since, the State Department has tried to minimize...
Haiti's other elite, the families of Lebanese and Palestinian immigrants who grew rich enough during the years of junta rule to corner an additional 40% of the economy, also curse Aristide and his American patrons. As they guard their corrugated-steel warehouses, crammed full of the contraband goods that made them the junta's most powerful allies, they foresee disaster under the new regime. "When the U.S. disarmed the paramilitaries, they totally eliminated what little security this country had," says Rudy Chemaly, a recent millionaire. "I am sorry they didn't kill Aristide...
Though their safety is not threatened, something just as precious is at stake: their jobs. The civil servant ranks have swollen from 27,000 during the days of the Duvalier dictatorship to 55,000 under the junta. With so many to do so little, government work days are often filled with cups of coffee and idle chatter. Yet their salaries gobble up 80% of the national treasury. To comply with the demands of the International Monetary Fund, Aristide must pare those ranks to 34,000. Whether these bureaucrats will back Aristide's efforts or try to gridlock his attempts...
...officials said they would open a police academy -- an effort to replace Haiti's disintegrated police force. But the U.S. Justice Department says it will have to retrain members of the old police force and army, "screening" out those known to have violated human rights under the junta. Meanwhile, trouble is still afoot: U.S. Special Forces are tracking down two armed anti-Aristide bands after three rural raids turned up dozens of weapons...