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...idea of an interim presidency, however, is hardly far-fetched. Since seizing power in 1991, Cedras and the two other members of Haiti's reigning troika -- Lieut. Colonel Joseph Michel Francois, the police chief, and army chief of staff Philippe Biamby -- have tried repeatedly to set such a scheme in motion. Now, emboldened by the military-staged thug-fest that turned back the troopship U.S.S. Harlan County from Port-au-Prince on Oct. 11, the triumvirate is ready for its end game...
...scheme to install an interim President hinges on the not unreasonable assumption that Clinton may at some point have to cut a deal with the military, declare a victory and retreat home to resume training his laser on domestic issues. It also requires continued accord within Haiti's reigning troika. Biamby and Cedras have been close friends since the early 1970s when they both attended Haiti's military academy. They show no inclination to part ways...
Neither Crimson team has registered three consecutive shutouts since the women blanked Boston College, Cornell, and Holy Cross in 1990; for Donahoe to trip the troika, she'll have to stop William and Mary this weekend on the road, in her words "a very tough" task...
...first good week in months, Bill Clinton had begun to shed, often grudgingly, some of the peculiar habits that helped send his approval ratings to a record low for a first-term President. He is delegating responsibility to a new troika of top aides. He is more disciplined with his words in public. He is spending less time in meetings with advisers and more time mending fences with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. While no one believes the White House is working perfectly yet -- the President remains hopelessly behind his daily schedule -- Clinton's confidence is returning. "The President," said White...
Clinton's task remains enormous. He must stay focused on the deficit, end his micromanaging, and come up with something to say about the budget besides how badly he "wants to keep the process moving." His closest advisers admit privately that, even with the new troika in place, the White House still needs a bad cop to impose more discipline on independent-minded party regulars and also on the President. But Clinton is learning. And school is one area in which he knows how to excel...