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Americans Flee Haiti As Rebellion Spreads
Scores of Americans, including missionaries and aid workers, streamed out of Haiti on Friday to escape a two-week rebellion that has overwhelmed the impoverished country's north. Many police deserted their posts, and rebels threatened new attacks this weekend. Later in the day, American and other diplomats handed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide a plan that calls for an interim governing council to advise him, and appoint a prime minister agreeable to both sides. But both sides were almost certain to reject it — Aristide because he has said he will not negotiate with the opposition, and the rival leaders because they want Aristide to step down.
Guess they'll just have to fight it out, then...
Pro-government militants burned 15 homes in the western port of St. Marc overnight, and three people died in the fires, independent Radio Galaxie reported. A day after the U.S. government urged Americans to leave Haiti, more than 200 people from the United States, France and Canada stood in long lines Friday at Toussaint Louverture International Airport, anxious to get out.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2004-02-21
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=26633