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- <text id=93TT1559>
- <title>
- Apr. 26, 1993: Aristide Offers to Deal
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 26, 1993 The Truth about Dinosaurs
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 10
- WORLD
- Aristide Offers to Deal
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>But the military rebuffs political amnesty from Haiti's exiled
- President
- </p>
- <p> If the solution to Haiti's miseries lies in compromise,
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide has now gone at least half the distance
- separating him and his adversaries. In a radio address taped
- from exile in Washington, the Caribbean nation's first
- democratically elected President reiterated an offer of
- political amnesty to the army commanders who deposed him 18
- months ago. In return for such a pardon, Aristide demanded
- reinstatement as President and pleaded with the military to
- "suspend your killing now."
- </p>
- <p> Aristide's gesture came amid a flurry of other diplomatic
- activity. The Clinton Administration let it be known that the
- U.S. might send a contingent of military advisers to help
- rebuild the impoverished nation following Aristide's return. The
- United Nations' special envoy for Haitian affairs, Argentine
- Dante Caputo, arrived in Port-au-Prince to serve as a mediator
- in the expected negotiations. But army commanders declined to
- meet with him, flatly rejecting the amnesty offer.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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