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- GRAPEVINE, Page 21HOPING TO PROFIT FROM TRAGEDY
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- By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- Haitian boat people may be fleeing political repression,
- but they are serving as economic pawns at the same time. As
- they try to reach U.S. shores, their plight has driven home to
- many Americans the desperate state of Haiti's economy. Which is
- exactly what some Haitian business leaders had hoped. According
- to an intelligence source, well-fixed Haitians have quietly
- encouraged the exodus, even putting up money for the lumber to
- build the flimsy boats called "floating coffins." If Americans
- are sufficiently moved, these men apparently believe, public
- pressure may force the U.S. to lift its economic embargo on
- Haiti.
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