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<text id=93TT1073>
<title>
Mar. 01, 1993: Haiti or Hades
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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THE WEEK, Page 11
NATION
Haiti or Hades
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<p>The Senate extends the ban on immigrants with the AIDS virus
</p>
<p> On Sunday, Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson began a fast in
support of HIV-infected Haitians wishing to immigrate to the
U.S. He was quickly joined by Olden Polynice, the Haitian-born
center for the Detroit Pistons basketball team. But the growls
of their stomachs fell on deaf ears. On Thursday the Senate
voted to prevent people infected with the AIDS virus from immigrating
to the U.S. The prohibition had been a matter of policy; the
Senate action is a step toward making it law. "It was a meanspirited
vote," says Jackson.
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<p> The vote was a setback not just for Jackson but for Bill Clinton
as well. During the presidential campaign, Clinton said he'd
change the policy. Jackson plans to continue his fast, which
was inspired by the more than 200 Haitians at the U.S. naval
base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who are also shunning food in
protest. Meanwhile, bad news keeps rolling in for Haitians.
In Miami a Haitian man surrendered to authorities after hijacking
a DC-3. And off the coast of the luckless island, a ferryboat
that may have been carrying as many as 1,000 people (nonrefugees
traveling around the island) sank during a rainstorm. Only about
300 people are known to have survived, though more might have
escaped.
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