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...melees underscored the volatile state of affairs in the capital and the precariousness of American control, despite an overwhelming military superiority. On Friday hours of looting and a bloody street battle marred a democracy march marking the three-year anniversary of Aristide's ouster. As gunmen loyal to the military junta fired into the lines of marchers near the headquarters of the paramilitary Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti, or FRAPH, dozens of militiamen armed with machetes and sticks fought viciously with Aristide supporters. By the end of the day, at least six had died and 20 more...
...Aristide lawmakers landed in Haiti on a U.S. chartered jetliner, ending their three-year exile with a trip straight to the Parliament building in Port-au-Prince. This afternoon, they convened with other members of the Assembly to debate and vote on a spate of bills to prepare for ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's return. At the top of their list: an Aristide-backed proposal to grant amnesty to Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras and junta supporters. TIME correspondent Bernard Diederich, who was there, said hundreds of jubilant Haitians surrounded the building, chanting "Handcuff Cedras!" as U.S. troops stood...
...University's endowment also beat the three-year consumer price index inflation rate by 9.6 percent over the last three years...
...adequate explanation of what finally drove him over the edge, and so the speculation runs a predictable course: it was the danger, the pressure, the grinding sorrows embedded in the daily routine. Last week the New York police department released the results of a three-year study that found that cops were more than twice as likely to kill themselves as were members of the general population. Though every case is different, the experts do see some patterns: male officers are far more likely to kill themselves than female ones, alcohol often plays some role, and corruption scandals within...
...three-year experiment in which TV crews were allowed to film in federal courts in some cities gets the death penalty this December. The reason? Judges are afraid that witnesses and jurors will get the jitters from all that exposure, according to a spokesman for the federal court system. But you will still get your O.J. fix. That trial is being conducted in state court, where cameras have become a veritable fixture because of the popularity of televised legal drama...