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<text id=93TT1559>
<title>
Apr. 26, 1993: Aristide Offers to Deal
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Apr. 26, 1993 The Truth about Dinosaurs
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 10
WORLD
Aristide Offers to Deal
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<p>But the military rebuffs political amnesty from Haiti's exiled
President
</p>
<p> If the solution to Haiti's miseries lies in compromise,
Jean-Bertrand Aristide has now gone at least half the distance
separating him and his adversaries. In a radio address taped
from exile in Washington, the Caribbean nation's first
democratically elected President reiterated an offer of
political amnesty to the army commanders who deposed him 18
months ago. In return for such a pardon, Aristide demanded
reinstatement as President and pleaded with the military to
"suspend your killing now."
</p>
<p> Aristide's gesture came amid a flurry of other diplomatic
activity. The Clinton Administration let it be known that the
U.S. might send a contingent of military advisers to help
rebuild the impoverished nation following Aristide's return. The
United Nations' special envoy for Haitian affairs, Argentine
Dante Caputo, arrived in Port-au-Prince to serve as a mediator
in the expected negotiations. But army commanders declined to
meet with him, flatly rejecting the amnesty offer.
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</body>
</article>
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