By The
Associated Press
Edited by Deb McAdams
News Digest
Tuesday, August 30, 1994 Page 2
Plans for intervention in Haiti
proceed with Jamaica meeting
WASHINGTON — The Clinton
administration’s plan to force Haiti’s
military junta to step down will get a
boost Tuesday when Caribbean for
eign and defense ministers assemble
in Jamaica with pledges to join a U.S.
led military coalition.
Several countries arc expected to
announce they will contribute troops
to the coalition that would move into
Haiti to stabilize the country, whether
or not Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras and his
cohorts depart under pressure of U.S.
economic sanctions and international
condemnation.
Barbados Jamaica and Belize have
already agreed to contribute troops to
the coalition, most ofwhich will come
from the United States. But in a strong
sign of unity, about a half-dozen other
countries arc expected to step forward
during the high-profile Jamaica meet
ing.
“The planning is proceeding and it
is incorrect to say that the timetable
has been set back because of Cuba,”
said a senior U.S. official, comment
ingon published reports that the tide of
Cuban refugees has delayed plans to
restore elected Haitian President Jcan
Bertrand Aristide.
The U.S. delegation to Kingston,
Jamaica, will be headed by Strobe
Talbott, the deputy secretary of state,
and John M. Deutch, the deputy de
fense secretary. Leon Fuerth, an offi
cial of the National Security Council
who reports to Vice President A1 Gore,
will be there as well.
Sunday’s assassination in Port-au
Prince of the Rev. Jean- Marie Vincent.
49. who saved Aristide’s life seven
years ago, underscored the violence
that increased after a bloody army
coup ousted Aristide in September
1991.
Antoine Joseph, former president
of Haiti’s lower house of parliament,
compared Vincent’s killing to the as
sassination of another Roman Catho
1 ic priest by thugs in the last months of
the brutal Duvalicr dictatorship in 1985.
“The first killing was an ill omen
for the Duvalierdictatorship. Thisonc
is an ill omen for the de facto regime,”
which has run Haiti since Aristide’s
ouster, Joseph said.
State Department spokesman
Michael McCurry condemned the as
sassination and said in a public mes
sage to “those who continue these
inhuman and senseless assassinations:
“Your crimes only increase our out
rage and strengthen our resolve to rid
Haiti of your abuses.” r
The pi anned coal it ion force of thou
sands of troops, supplemented by po
lice, civilian technicians and adminis
trators would have the task of stabiliz
ing Haiti by forcibly removing Ccdras
and other military leaders if they do
not step down. If the junta leaves, the
coalition’s task is to restore order.
It would be followed by a peace
keeping force being assembled by the
United Nations. Some 40countries arc
expected to contribute to this second
phase operation. Half have already
signed on.
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Elder’s son gets 10 years
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A judge sentenced a son of U.S. Surgeon
General Joycclyn Elders on Monday to 10 years in prison for selling onc
cighth of an ounce of cocaine to an undercover policeman.
As Kevin Elders was led off to jail, the surgeon general fought back
tears, while his father, Oliver, slammed his hands into a steel door in
frustration.
Kevin Elders, 28, had claimed entrapment, saying the informant who
set up the July 29,1993, deal had threatened to expose his drug habit and
embarrass his mother at her confirmation hearing.
The sale of the S275 worth of cocaine was Elders’ first offense, but
Circuit Judge John Plcggc said the law required him to impose the
minimum 10-ycar sentence. He could have been sentenced to life.
Quayle throws hat into ring
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dan Quayle has all but
decided to seek the presidency in 1996 and is beginning to lay the
groundwork for a campaign, a close associate said Monday.
He will begin to campaign for Republican congressional and guber
natorial candidates and is planning major speeches to try out possible
themes for the 1996 campaign, according to the associate, who spoke on
condition of anonymity.
Quayle recently returned with his family from a long vacation.during
which theydiscussed whether he should seek the Republican nomination.
All indications are that the answer is yes, said the friend who spoke to
Quayle after the vacation.
Cosmonauts living on leftovers
MOSCOW—Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov may well set a record for
time spent in space.
But for the 5l-ycar-old physician, who has been aboard the Mir
orbiting space station since January and plans to stay there for about six
more months, success may hinge on just how long he can stand eating
leftovers.
A ship carrying the first shipment of fresh supplies, fuel and equip
ment, for a troika of cosmonauts who have been on board the Mir for
almost two months, failed to dock and will try again Tuesday, officials
said Monday.
“There is no cause for concern over dwindling supplies yet,” said
Vsevolod Latyshev, a spokeman for the Russian flight control center
outside Moscow.
“If the cargo ship fails to dock with the space station, then, of course,
the situation will become more serious,” he said.
The cosmonauts have enough food on board for at least a month. Water
is not a problem because the Mir life support systems recycles cabin
humidity for drinking water.
China tightens security
BEIJING — The arrival of a U.S. Cabinet member kicked into gear
China’s security apparatus with the usual round of dissident detentions
and surveillance that accompany any sensitive Western visit.
Over the weekend, police started taking up positions outside the homes
of political activists in Beijing.
W ang Dan, a prominent student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square
democracy movement, was detained for 12 hours Saturday, the night
Commerce Secretary Ron Brown arrived.
Such security precautions arc intended to prevent any private meetings
of the visitors with dissidents and to discourage embarrassing protests.
They are standard procedure every time a high-level Western official
comes to town.
Brown is the first Cabinet member to visit China since President
Clinton decided in May to sever the link between normal trade relations
and China’s human rights practices.
Hutus implored to leave Zaire
GOMA, Zaire — Zaire and Rwanda’s Tutsi-lcd government held
U.N.-sponsored talks Monday to find ways to persuade more than 1
million Hutu refugees to return to Rwanda.
Filippo Grandi of the U.N. H igh Commissioner for Refugees met with
Zairian officials and the Rwandan Patriotic Front, but the meeting ended
without a resolution. They arc to resume talks Tuesday.
The success of the talks, however, depends on support from Rwanda’s
former Hutu-led government, which was overthrown in July by the
Tutsis. Exiled Hutu leaders in Zaire say they will ask refugees to return
only after the Tutsis agree to share power and U.N. peacekeepers ensure
the refugees’ safety.
Up to 500,000 mostly Tutsi civilians were massacred this spring by
elements of Rwanda’s army and civilian death squads organised by
extremist Hutu politicians. Some moderate Hutus were also slain.
No survivors in DEA plane crash
WASHINGTON — Searchers have reached a plane that crashed
carrying five U.S. drug agents in a remote area of Peru’s cocaine
producing jungle and confirmed there were no survivors, the Drug
Enforcement Administration said Monday.
The plane crashed Saturday afternoon in a heavily forested region of
the Upper Huallaga Valley, where most of Peru’s illegal coca crop is
grown. Rain and clouds had hampered efforts to reach the crash site.
The agents were identified as Frank Fernandez, 38, of Washington;
Jay W. Scale, 31, of Los Angeles; Meredith Thompson, 33, of Miami;
Frank S. Wallace Jr., 37, of Houston, and Juan C. Vars, 32, San Antonio,
Texas.
The DEA said the cause of the crash was under investigation but there
was no sign of fire or explosion, according to the search team which
included Peruvian military and DEA personnel.