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- <text id=93TT1073>
- <title>
- Mar. 01, 1993: Haiti or Hades
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 11
- NATION
- Haiti or Hades
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>The Senate extends the ban on immigrants with the AIDS virus
- </p>
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- <p> On Sunday, Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson began a fast in
- support of HIV-infected Haitians wishing to immigrate to the
- U.S. He was quickly joined by Olden Polynice, the Haitian-born
- center for the Detroit Pistons basketball team. But the growls
- of their stomachs fell on deaf ears. On Thursday the Senate
- voted to prevent people infected with the AIDS virus from immigrating
- to the U.S. The prohibition had been a matter of policy; the
- Senate action is a step toward making it law. "It was a meanspirited
- vote," says Jackson.
- </p>
- <p> The vote was a setback not just for Jackson but for Bill Clinton
- as well. During the presidential campaign, Clinton said he'd
- change the policy. Jackson plans to continue his fast, which
- was inspired by the more than 200 Haitians at the U.S. naval
- base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who are also shunning food in
- protest. Meanwhile, bad news keeps rolling in for Haitians.
- In Miami a Haitian man surrendered to authorities after hijacking
- a DC-3. And off the coast of the luckless island, a ferryboat
- that may have been carrying as many as 1,000 people (nonrefugees
- traveling around the island) sank during a rainstorm. Only about
- 300 people are known to have survived, though more might have
- escaped.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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