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Haitian protesters
want end to standoff
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —
Buoyed by the failure of a U.N.
plan to return President Jean
Bcrtrand Aristide to power on
schedule, about 200 chanting right
ists marched Sunday to demand his
replacement.
Other rightists considered a
“constitutional coup” that would
bar Aristide from office and re
place him with a Supreme Court
justice, although a leading official
in the former Duvalier dictatorship
emerged Sunday to demand power
within the Aristide-backed transi
tion government.
“Arrest Malval! Arrest Malval!
Aristide’s in deep trouble!” the
demonstrators, referring to
Aristide’s prime minister, chanted
outside the vacant National Palace
in tune to “Farmer in the Dell.”
One protester carried a black
and-red Duvalierist flag atop the
statue to the Unknown Slave. Three
older women carried color photo
graphs of Francois “Papa Doc”
Duval ier as the protesters marched
toward the Normandie Bar, a hang
out for army-backed civilian gangs
known as “attaches.”
“We’re tired, we’re finished
with everything, we’re going to
form our own government! ” shout
ed former Sen. Reynald Georges, a
Duval ier supporter. Francois “Papa
Doc” Duvalier and his successor
son, Jean-Claudc, ruled Haiti for
nearly 29 years. The regime top
pled after popular protests chased
Jcan-Claude “Baby Doc” from the
country in 1986.
Georges said his supporters
didn’t have to storm the palace.
“We cannot storm something that
belongs to us,” he told journalists
in the Caribbean sun.
Asked about the two-thirds sup
port reported for Aristide in the
1990 popular election, Georges
could not restrain himself: “Eh
hah-hah-hah! I am laughing.”
Across the Avenue of Liberty,
four military officers in civilian
clothes watched the demonstration.
On the street, a prominent busi
nessman looked on sadly.
“I don’t see how we are getting
out of this thing,” Gerald Allen
said, referring to the blocked polit
ical and economic impasse. Three
months ago, he closed his weekly
Journal du Commerce, founded in
1954, because of the collapse of
legitimate businesses in the face of
thriving contraband market.
“There is nothing left to de
fend,” Allen said. “They (the right
ists) say they are the people, but
they are not the people. The people
are in hiding,” the Rev. Rene
Giroux, a priest in an Aristide
stronghold in the capital, said.
Aristide supporters have been
repressed since the military over
threw the elected president in Sep
tember 1991. Premier Robert
Malval was appointed by Aristide
in August as part of a U.N.
mvisoning Aristide’s return by Oct.
30, but the military has retained
:ontrol of government ministries.
U.S. and U.N. officials, who
have imposed a worldwide oil and
arms embargo on Haiti, have
warned that a constitutional coup
would violate the terms of the U.N.
plan to restore democracy in Haiti.
Californians try to recover
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.—Jack
and Elaine Lund lost their home, cloth
ing and 25 years of memories when a
wildfire leveled their house near
Emerald Bay.
But when they went to church Sun
day in newly purchased clothes, they
volunteered one of their few remain
ing possessions to help others left
homeless in last week’s firestorm.
They offered the use of their pickup
truck to carry victims’ belongings.
“There may be people worse off
than us,” said tawnd, who retired from
the Army in 1968 and ran a golf cart
distributorship afterward. “We lost
all the material things of the house,
which means nothing.”
At St. Catherine of Siena Roman
Catholic Church in Laguna Beach,
and at churches and homes around
Southern California, people like the
Lunds were stepping forward to help.
And they were counting their bless
ings that, despite the destruction
wrought by fires that flared up with a
blast of Santa Anas, nobody was killed.
Thirteen major fires in a 200-mile
stretch from Ventura County to the
Mexican bordertorchcd 167,700 acres,
damaged or destroyed 787 buildings,
including at least 650 homes, and
injured 62. A preliminary estimate
from the state Office of Emergency
Services put damage at S500 million.
The Laguna Beach fire, which de
stroyed 366 homes and businesses
and charred 16,680 acres of brush and
suburban landscape, was contained
within a line of bare earth. A destruc
tive 5,700-acre blaze above Altadcna
was 60 percent contained but burning
away from homes into the mountains
northeast of Los Angeles and a 39,000
acrc fire in Ventura County was 90
percent contained.
High clouds drifted over most of
the region Sunday, maintaining cool,
moist weather that helped frefighters
get the upper hand on the fires. But the
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TOTALS:
■ Acres burned: 167,700
■ Structures destroyed: About 787.
■ People displaced from homes: About 25,000.
■ Firefighters and civilians injured: 62.
■ Preliminary damage estimate: $550 million.
forecast lent urgency to efforts by
hundreds of firefighters who rushed
to the area from across California and
the West.
The National Weather Service said
the Santa Anas — hot desert winds
from the east or northeast in Southern
California — could begin blowing
again Monday night and Tuesday.
The winds are expected to blow at 20
mph to 30 mph with gusts up to 45
mph — milder than the winds that
spread the wildfires.
Out-of-town crews were handling
the heavy work of snuffing hot spots
AP
with hand tools, said Capt. Michael
Wilson, a California Department of
Forestry firefighter in Riverside Coun
ty
“If we get the hard winds, we’re
looking at everything happening all
over again,” Wilson said. “We need
to get everybody fed and rested.”
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town of 24,000, there was little sign
Sunday of the devastation that oc- I
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River Phoenix dies at nightclub
LOS ANGELES—River Phoenix, whose
natural intensity as a teen-age actor in the
1986 film “Stand by Me” launched his ca
reer, collapsed outside a nightclub early
Sunday and died. He was 23.
Friends reported that Phoenix was “act
ing strange” as he left the Viper Room in
West Hollywood about 1 a.m., said sheriffs
Deputy Diane Hecht. She didn’t elaborate.
Paramedics were called when the actor
collapsed and he was rushed to Cedars Sinai
Medical Center. He was pronounced dead
shortly before 2 a.m.
An autopsy will probably be performed
Monday, she said. Sheriffs detectives were
handling the case, as a matter of routine, but
“it’s not a homicide investigation at this
time,” Hccht said.
A year after his 1985 film debut in “Ex
plorers,” Phoenix showed his star potential
in director Rob Reiner’s “Stand by Me.”
In his brief career, Phoenix played a male
hustler in Gus Van Sant’s 1991 film “My
Own Private Idaho” and portrayed a youth
ful computer hacker in the Robert Redford
led ensemble cast of 1992’s “Sneakers.”
His other films include “The Mosquito
Coast” (1986) and “Indiana Jones and the
Last Crusade ” both with Harrison Ford,
“Little Nikita” (1988) with Sidney Poitier,
“A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon”
(1988) and "Running on Empty” (1988).
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Dolphins'Shula ties coaching record with 324th victory
MIAMI — Don Shula got part of a record
and a full soaking Sunday.
Shula tied George Halas with 324 victories,
most in NFL history, when Scott Mitchell threw
three touchdown passes in a 30-10 rout of
Kansas City. It has taken the 63-year-old Shula
30 years to compile a 324-152-6 mark with the
Dolphins and Baltimore Colts. Halas was 324
151-31 in 40 seasons with the Chicago Bears.
Shula’s reward? Linebacker Bryan Cox
dunked a pail of ice water on Shula’s head.
How did Shula react?
“I told him I loved him,” Shula replied.
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He goes for the record next week at the New
York Jets, the only team to beat the Dolphins (6
1) this season.
“I’m very happy to tie a record by a guv
who’s meant so much to the National Football
League,” Shula said. “I never even thought
when I first started coaching that there would be
a day like this.”
It was another short day’s work for Joe
Montana. The Chiefs quarterback left in the
second quarter after reaggravating a hamstring
injury.
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