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...powerful police chief Michel Francois went on the radio in the Dominican Republic to call for the resignation of military boss Lieut. General Raoul Cedras. While Francois quickly disavowed his brother's statement as "offensive and inopportune," the police chief's associates confirmed a growing rift between the two junta leaders...
Hundreds of people jammed the airport in Port-au-Prince to catch final flights to Miami and New York City, as the rest of the country put the international crisis on hold for World Cup soccer. The U.S.-led commercial travel ban, designed to budge the ruling junta, kicks in at midnight, and about half the 8,000 Americans in Haiti are expected to leave the country. But even as the deadline approached, virtually everyone took time out to watch local favorites Cameroon and Brazil face off. "This place is a powder keg, and it could...
...supposed to make Haiti's bosses start taking seriously U.S. determination to remove them. In the past, deadlines for their departure have come and gone, while Washington did little. By week's end officials were once again emphasizing sanctions and the long haul. That could change quickly if the junta retaliates by seizing humanitarian-aid shipments or threatening the lives of Americans...
...handful of wealthy families who directly or indirectly support the junta maintain their near monopolies on items exempted from the blockade, such as cooking oil, rice and sugar -- and are profiting handsomely. The Brandts control the market in flour, which shot up from $43 to $50 a sack, and have a corner on the country's chicken industry. The Mevs family continues to add on to a fuel depot capable of holding 50 million gal. Their cement business is booming as black-market millionaires build new homes. The Madsens are doing big business in humanitarian food at their shipping terminal...
...their efforts, Haiti's junta leaders were condemned by governments around the world, which refused to recognize the newly seated puppet President. Yet Clinton was back where he started: in a fog of indecision, with the U.N., the Organization of American States and just about everyone else waiting for him to provide presidential vision. The breathing space he had hoped to give himself by tightening the economic embargo on Haiti -- which will go into effect May 21 -- has already been undermined by his Administration's accelerated hints of possible military action. "The Administration is drifting toward intervention in some form...