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- <text id=92TT0492>
- <title>
- Mar. 09, 1992: World Notes:Haiti
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 09, 1992 Fighting the Backlash Against Feminism
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 41
- World Notes
- HAITI
- Fragile as An Eggshell
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Since soldiers overthrew Haiti's first freely elected
- President five months ago, restoring a functioning democracy has
- not proved easy. Last week, in an attempt to lift the crippling
- economic embargo imposed on the military-backed government by
- the Organization of American States, top politicians of the
- hemisphere's poorest country struck a complex deal at OAS
- headquarters in Washington.
- </p>
- <p> The agreement calls for the eventual return to office of
- ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a populist priest and
- champion of the poor; the formation of a Cabinet of national
- unity under Prime Minister-designate Rene Theodore, a former
- Aristide rival and Communist Party moderate; and a general
- amnesty for those involved in the coup.
- </p>
- <p> The eggshell fragility of the compromise quickly became
- evident, however, when Aristide promptly declared that the
- amnesty must not cover the top putsch leader, army chief Lieut.
- General Raoul Cedras, whom he labeled a common criminal. The
- vaguely worded accord, which needs to be ratified by Haiti's
- Parliament, was a "miracle," said an OAS diplomat, "but we'll
- need another miracle to make it stick."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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