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- Sep. 26, 1994: Chronicles The Week:Sept. 11-14
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Sep. 26, 1994 Taking Over Haiti
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- CHRONICLES, Page 9
- The Week: September 11-17
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>NATION
- </p>
- <p> "Your Time Is Up. Leave Now."
- </p>
- <p> With these blunt words President Clinton served warning on Haiti's
- military rulers to leave the country peacefully, or else a U.S.-led
- invasion would commence shortly. But the following day, perhaps
- to muffle strong congressional criticism, he eased up a bit
- and announced that former President Jimmy Carter would lead
- a high-level delegation to Haiti for one last try at getting
- the junta to step down. The 11th-hour mission, which also includes
- former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell and Senate
- Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn, left Saturday amid
- rumors that Haitian strongman Raoul Cedras and his two top aides
- were at last considering a peaceful departure.
- </p>
- <p> Aristide's Promise
- </p>
- <p> Meanwhile, at a White House gathering for representatives of
- the 24 countries that will contribute troops to the U.S.-led
- invasion force, deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- pledged reconciliation once he is reinstated. "We say no to
- vengeance. We say no to retaliation," Aristide promised his
- military adversaries. "You will not be isolated. You are the
- sons of the land. Do not be afraid."
- </p>
- <p> Things That Go Bump
- </p>
- <p> Just before dawn on Monday, Sept. 12, a small red-and-white
- Cessna crash-landed on the White House lawn, ripped through
- a venerable magnolia tree planted by President Andrew Jackson
- and smashed into the side of the White House, just under the
- Clintons' bedroom. Fortunately, the First Family was spending
- the night across Pennsylvania Avenue at Blair House. The crash
- raised questions about White House security and why air-traffic
- controllers at National Airport did not notice the tiny plane
- on their radar screens. Noting that the pilot had a history
- of depression and substance abuse, investigators suggested the
- bizarre episode was a successful suicide attempt rather than
- a bungled publicity stunt.
- </p>
- <p> The Once and Future Mayor
- </p>
- <p> It was a stunning victory for a man who, just four years ago,
- was sentenced to six months in prison for possession of cocaine.
- Former Washington mayor Marion Barry astonished even his most
- fervent supporters by trouncing city council member John Ray
- and incumbent mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly in the Democratic mayoral
- primary. Kelly, who won four years ago as a reformer in the
- wake of Barry's arrest, did not win a single precinct.
- </p>
- <p> Crime Bill Becomes Law
- </p>
- <p> Three weeks after a crime bill was passed by Congress, President
- Clinton signed the bitterly contested measure into law. Exhorting
- Americans to "take personal responsibility for themselves, their
- families and their communities," Clinton warned that the $30
- billion legislation on its own would not end the escalating
- violence in this country.
- </p>
- <p> First Birthday for "Rego"
- </p>
- <p> On the first anniversary of the Administration's ambitious efforts
- to "reinvent government," President Clinton, with project leader
- Al Gore at his side, took a pair of scissors and snipped through
- a symbolic tangle of red tape to claim that the initiative had
- already saved $47 billion. How? By removing more than 70,000
- workers from the federal payroll, mostly through buyouts and
- retirements, and cutting paperwork.
- </p>
- <p> Kickoff for National Service
- </p>
- <p> In yet another White House photo op, nearly 15,000 youthful
- volunteers--most via video hookup--were sworn into Americorps,
- the country's new national-service program. The volunteers will
- perform community-service work in exchange for help with college
- tuition. The program could expand to as many as 100,000 participants
- during the next three years.
- </p>
- <p> Health Care: Still Not Dead
- </p>
- <p> Against all odds, health-care reform registered a faint but
- detectable pulse on Capitol Hill as various alliances of legislators
- continued to seek some form of compromise. While both positive
- and negative reports surfaced, there was no official action.
- </p>
- <p> USAir Crash: Still a Mystery
- </p>
- <p> Investigators sifting through the scattered wreckage of USAir
- Flight 427 are no closer to discovering why the Boeing 737 suddenly
- nose-dived to the ground, killing all 132 aboard. The FBI ruled
- out any suggestion that the aircraft was sabotaged in order
- to silence one of the passengers--a drug informant who had
- been testifying to federal prosecutors in Chicago.
- </p>
- <p> O.J. Blood Ties
- </p>
- <p> There were widespread reports that a batch of final DNA tests
- point to O.J. Simpson as the source of at least two of the blood
- drops discovered leading away from the bodies of Nicole Simpson
- and Ronald Goldman.
- </p>
- <p> Damages for an Oil Spill
- </p>
- <p> A federal jury in Anchorage, Alaska, ordered the Exxon Corp.
- to pay a whopping $5 billion in punitive damages to commercial
- fishermen, property owners and Alaska natives harmed in the
- 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Exxon said it would appeal.
- </p>
- <p> Damages for a Killing
- </p>
- <p> A Louisiana judge awarded more than $650,000 to the parents
- of a Japanese teenager who was shot to death by a Baton Rouge
- homeowner as the youth was asking directions to a Halloween
- party. "I felt the intelligence and reasoning of America in
- the judgment," said the dead boy's mother after the decision.
- Last year a criminal court acquitted the homeowner, Rodney Peairs,
- of criminal charges of manslaughter.
- </p>
- <p>WORLD
- </p>
- <p> Liberian Coup Attempt Fails
- </p>
- <p> Peacekeepers from eight West African nations used tanks and
- gunboats to defeat a faction of the former Liberian army that
- tried to overthrow an interim government; it was the latest
- outbreak of fighting in Liberia's five-year-old civil war. The
- attempted putsch came three days after the country's three main
- warring factions signed a United Nations-approved peace pact.
- </p>
- <p> Cairo Conference Concurs
- </p>
- <p> After nine days of wrangling over abortion and semantics, the
- U.N. population conference formally agreed that the key to limiting
- world population growth rests with the advancement of women.
- Delegates from nearly 180 countries--as well as the Vatican,
- which joined the consensus in a "partial manner"--endorsed
- a document that argues for meeting health and education needs
- as one of the most effective brakes to population growth.
- </p>
- <p> Separatists Win in Quebec
- </p>
- <p> Voters in Quebec elected a government committed to making the
- Canadian province an independent country. Jacques Parizeau,
- leader of the Parti Quebecois, which captured 44.7% of the vote,
- vowed to hold a referendum within 10 months on whether Quebec
- should secede, though polls during the campaign showed that
- most Quebeckers do not want independence.
- </p>
- <p> Bosnian Serbs Defy U.S.
- </p>
- <p> The U.S. announced it will work to end the U.N. arms embargo
- against the Bosnian Muslims unless the Bosnian Serbs accept
- a Western-sponsored peace plan by Oct. 15. However, the Serbs
- said they would defy the ultimatum, and U.S. allies, including
- Russia, Britain and France, oppose lifting the embargo.
- </p>
- <p> I.R.A. Broadcast Ban Lifted
- </p>
- <p> In a concession to the I.R.A. after its cease-fire announcement
- last month, British Prime Minister John Major lifted a ban on
- broadcasting the voices of Irish Republican Army leaders. Former
- PM Margaret Thatcher banned the I.R.A. voices from British broadcasts
- in 1988, but radio and TV stations simply used actors with Northern
- Irish accents to dub the comments of Republican activists.
- </p>
- <p> W.W. II Bomb Explodes in Berlin
- </p>
- <p> Three construction workers were killed and 14 people were injured
- when a World War II-era bomb exploded at a building site in
- what used to be East Berlin. The blast was triggered by drilling
- that was being carried out for an office complex.
- </p>
- <p>BUSINESS
- </p>
- <p> Elsie, Meet Mr. Kravis
- </p>
- <p> Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. agreed to acquire financially
- troubled Borden Inc. K.K.R. will swap $2 billion of its holdings
- in R.J.R. Nabisco in exchange for all of Borden's outstanding
- stock. In a second part of the transaction, R.J.R. will issue
- additional new shares worth $500 million to Borden in exchange
- for a 20% stake in the company. The arrangement, which is still
- pending final agreement, would dilute K.K.R.'s holdings of R.J.R.
- Nabisco, the company it bought for $25 billion in 1989 in the
- most expensive takeover in history, from 35% to 17.5%.
- </p>
- <p> Stocks Hit Seven-Month Peak
- </p>
- <p> Thanks partly to good news on inflation, traders sent the Dow
- Jones industrial average climbing 58.55 points on Thursday,
- to 3953.88, its highest level in seven months. The market gave
- back some of its gains the next day, closing down 20.53 points.
- </p>
- <p> Germans Regain Bayer Aspirin
- </p>
- <p> The German chemical firm Bayer paid $1 billion to regain the
- American rights to its name by buying the North American over-the-counter
- medicine business of Sterling Winthrop. A Bayer chemist, Felix
- Hoffman, developed the company's production process for its
- most famous product, aspirin, in 1893. Bayer lost its American
- patents and copyrights in 1918, when the U.S. government seized
- the firm's assets following World War I.
- </p>
- <p>SCIENCE
- </p>
- <p> Transistor Breakthrough
- </p>
- <p> Researchers in France have developed an electronic transistor
- that contains no metallic parts. Instead they used paper-printing
- technology to assemble very thin layers of plastic that mimic
- the properties of silicon chips. Because plastic is so much
- more flexible than metal, the devices could theoretically be
- used to create such futuristic items as video screens that roll
- up like window shades or bendable computers the size of credit
- cards.
- </p>
- <p>SPORT
- </p>
- <p> It's Over
- </p>
- <p> Baseball's acting commissioner Bud Selig made the anticlimactic
- announcement: because of the 34-day players' strike, the remainder
- of the 1994 season, including--for the first time in 90 years--the World Series, has been canceled. In its place: further
- acrimonious bargaining lasting no one knows for how long.
- </p>
- <p>By Kathleen Adams, Melissa August, Leslie Dickstein, Christine
- Gorman, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Alain L. Sanders and
- Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p>HEALTH REPORT
- </p>
- <p> The Good News
- </p>
- <p>-- After an intense four-year search, researchers report that
- they have isolated the gene responsible for a hereditary form
- of breast cancer that may afflict one in 200 women. Although
- the discovery will not lead to any improvements in medical treatments
- in the near future, scientists hope it will teach them something
- about how breast cancer develops.
- </p>
- <p>-- Some people with leaky heart valves may not have to undergo
- surgery for their condition. A study of 143 patients shows that
- taking Procardia, a widely prescribed drug for the treatment
- of high blood pressure, can decrease the size of a leak, thereby
- reducing the need for an operation.
- </p>
- <p> The Bad News
- </p>
- <p>-- When it comes to prostate cancer, an ounce of prevention
- may lead to too much cure. According to a controversial mathematical
- analysis, routine screening of men over age 50 may lead to treatment
- of tumors that are growing so slowly they are unlikely to prove
- fatal. In those cases, the risk that surgery could cause incontinence
- or impotence may be greater than the risk of dying from cancer.
- </p>
- <p>-- Current tests for genital herpes are not sensitive enough
- to detect all cases in which a mother might pass the virus on
- to her newborn child. Researchers estimate that the true rate
- of infection is about eight times higher than standard tests
- now show.
- </p>
- <p> Sources-GOOD: Science; The New England Journal of Medicine.
- BAD: Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of
- the American Medical Association.
- </p>
- <p>LAZARUS OF THE WEEK
- </p>
- <p> Poised to get his old job back, former Washington mayor Marion
- Barry may be proof there's no such thing as bad publicity.
- </p>
- <p>INSIDE WASHINGTON
- </p>
- <p> Accusations About Aristide Put Justice in a Bind
- </p>
- <p> With Haiti as the White House crisis du jour, Administration
- officials have been unhappily juggling some hot potatoes lobbed
- into the Justice Department by federal drug informants--namely,
- a series of uncorroborated but sensational allegations that
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's erstwhile President, took hundreds
- of thousands of dollars in look-the-other-way money from Colombian
- drug cartels while in office. Though none of the claims have
- been supported, and the sources may have suspect motives, jittery
- officials fear that discounting the accusations would incur
- charges of political favoritism. "My guidance is to go by the
- book and to follow any leads that are appropriate," Deputy Attorney
- General Jamie Gorelick told TIME.
- </p>
- <p>WINNERS & LOSERS
- </p>
- <p> Winners
- </p>
- <p> SENATOR CHARLES ROBB--His wan anti-Ollie race aided by withdrawal of arch-rival Doug
- Wilder.
- </p>
- <p> THE BRECK GIRL--She's back as Dial hunts for the next Basinger or Brinkley.
- </p>
- <p> DIANE SAWYER--She gets Nicole's family; Barbara Walters gets Ron Goldman's.
- </p>
- <p> Losers
- </p>
- <p> N.Y. YANKEE DON MATTINGLY--Future Hall of Famer headed for first playoff ever...until
- strike.
- </p>
- <p> FEDERAL AVIATION ADMIN.--Catching hell for flight with unscheduled White House layover.
- </p>
- <p> THE FINE ART OF KICK BOXING--Can sport of Van Damme survive nude Patti Davis video?
- </p>
- <p>NEWT'S EYE VIEW
- </p>
- <p> "It's a sad commentary and something every American has to come
- to grips with that you could have people in a city like Washington
- so desperate that they would vote for a convicted felon with
- a totally failed record and a man who clearly is going to have
- an impossible time trying to deal with the Congress."
- </p>
- <p>-- House minority whip Newt Gingrich, on Marion Barry's victory
- in the Washington Democratic mayoral primary
- </p>
- <p> "((Gingrich)) said through a spokesman that he `will strongly
- support Colonel North and looks forward to campaigning for him
- in Virginia.'"
- </p>
- <p>-- From a June 7 Washington Times report on Oliver North's campaign
- for a Senate seat
- </p>
- <p>INFORMED SOURCES
- </p>
- <p> Pulling Out His Coattails
- </p>
- <p> Richmond--DOUGLAS WILDER's scuttling of his independent Senate
- candidacy in Virginia probably saves the seat for incumbent
- Democrat CHUCK ROBB. But wait--there's a flip side: Democrats
- may lose two tight House races in which they were counting on
- a large turnout of blacks voting for Wilder to translate into
- votes for regular Democrats lower down on the ticket.
- </p>
- <p> Calling Mrs. Doubtfire
- </p>
- <p> Washington--With HILLARY CLINTON's chief of staff MARGARET
- WILLIAMS planning to leave after the fall elections, Administration
- officials are quietly searching for someone to recast the First
- Lady's image by mixing in a little more tradition and tea sipping.
- "We need a young Liz Carpenter-type," sighs one official, referring
- to Lady Bird Johnson's inventive Texas-bred press secretary.
- Key question in job interviews: What should Mrs. Clinton's next
- project be? Good answer: Promoting the needs of children.
- </p>
- <p> One Less Thing for Hard Copy to Worry About
- </p>
- <p> Los Angeles--JOHN DUNTON, the so-called O.J. MYSTERY WITNESS
- who went to jail rather than talk to a grand jury investigating
- O.J. Simpson's pal Al Cowlings, is appearing less and less mysterious.
- An L.A. County district attorney told TIME he interviewed Dunton
- in late 1987 while prosecuting a jailhouse murder. "It was clear
- he had zippo credibility," recalls the D.A., describing Dunton
- as "a wannabe informant" and worse: "He's a flake."
- </p>
- <p>THE PRESIDENTIAL MILITARY-INTERVENTION SPEECH: A PRIMER
- </p>
- <p> Need to persuade America it's time to ship the Marines off to
- a troubled country somewhere hot? Here's how, based on actual
- presidential addresses regarding actual U.S. invasions:
- </p>
- <p> KEY POINT #1: Not Just Foreigners Are in Danger but Americans
- Too:
- </p>
- <p> JOHNSON--Dominican Republic: "Only an immediate landing of
- American forces could safeguard and protect the lives of thousands
- of Americans "
- </p>
- <p> NIXON--Cambodia: "I have concluded that the actions of the
- enemy in the last 10 days clearly endanger the lives of Americans
- who are in Vietnam "
- </p>
- <p> REAGAN--Grenada: "There were then about 1,000 of our citizens
- on Grenada, 800 of them students in St. George's University
- Medical School."
- </p>
- <p> BUSH--Panama: "General Noriega's reckless threats and attacks
- upon Americans in Panama created an imminent danger to the 35,000
- American citizens in Panama."
- </p>
- <p> CLINTON--did not address this point
- </p>
- <p> KEY POINT #2: Look, I've Done Everything I Can
- </p>
- <p> JOHNSON: "I and all the officials of the American government
- worked with every weapon at our command to ((restore peace))."
- </p>
- <p> NIXON: "I say tonight: All the offers and approaches made previously
- remain on the conference table whenever Hanoi is ready to negotiate
- seriously."
- </p>
- <p> REAGAN: did not address this point
- </p>
- <p> BUSH: "I took this action only after reaching the conclusion
- that every other avenue was closed "
- </p>
- <p> CLINTON: "For three years we and other nations have worked exhaustively
- to find a diplomatic solution, only to have the dictators reject
- each one."
- </p>
- <p> KEY POINT #3: We Will Also Fight with Vaguely Wilsonian Rhetoric
- </p>
- <p> JOHNSON: "At stake are the liberty of a nation and the principles
- and the values of all the American republics."
- </p>
- <p> NIXON: "If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful
- nation acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism
- and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions
- throughout the world."
- </p>
- <p> REAGAN: "((Grenada)) was a Soviet-Cuban colony, being readied
- as a military bastion to export terror and undermine democracy.
- We got there just in time."
- </p>
- <p> BUSH: "The Panamanian people want democracy, peace and the chance
- for a better life in dignity and freedom."
- </p>
- <p> CLINTON: "History has taught us that preserving democracy in
- our own hemisphere strengthens America's security and prosperity."
- </p>
- <p> KEY POINT #4: The Boys Will Be Home for Christmas, or Thereabouts
- </p>
- <p> JOHNSON: Did not address this point
- </p>
- <p> NIXON: "Once enemy forces are driven out of these sanctuaries
- and once their military supplies are destroyed, we will withdraw."
- </p>
- <p> REAGAN: "It's our intention to get our men out as soon as possible."
- </p>
- <p> BUSH: "The U.S. intends to withdraw the forces newly deployed
- to Panama as quickly as possible."
- </p>
- <p> CLINTON: "The vast majority of our troops will come home in
- months, not years."
- </p>
- <p>SMART CRIMINALS, FOOLISH CHOICES
- </p>
- <p> New York City--After executing a smooth $1.9 million jewelry
- heist at Tiffany's two weeks ago, the decidedly unstreetwise
- thieves fenced their wares directly on the streets of Times
- Square and Harlem. Offering $10,000 pieces for as little as
- $200, the group was quickly rounded up by police.
- </p>
- <p> West Plains, Missouri--A man attempting to pawn a stolen bracelet
- was apprehended earlier this month when the pawn shop owner
- recognized the jewelry--it was his wife's.
- </p>
- <p> Indianapolis--A would-be drug user was nabbed in June after
- inadvertently dialing a police detective instead of his drug
- dealer's beeper. The detective played along with the conversation
- and later busted the caller after posing as his supplier's associate.
- </p>
- <p> Charleston, West Virginia--In March a knife-wielding mugger
- accepted a $300 check when his victim could only produce $12.50
- in cash. The thief was arrested the next day trying to cash
- the check.
- </p>
- <p> Lynn, Massachusetts--After $4,466 was stolen from the Equitable
- Cooperative Bank in February, the robber was tracked down minutes
- later in his getaway car--a hailed taxicab. Identification
- was made easier by the fact that the criminal was still wearing
- the mask he used during the stickup.
- </p>
- <p> Memphis, Tennessee--While pillaging a local home last winter,
- a burglar left behind his red and white Nikes. Realizing later
- where he had lost them, he returned and asked the lady of the
- house if she had found a pair of colorful athletic shoes lying
- about. She called police. He was arrested shortly thereafter.
- </p>
- <p>BESUBORU LIKE IT OUGHTA BE
- </p>
- <p> Unlike its American cousin, Japanese major league baseball (pronounced
- besuboru) is in the grip of pennant fever:
- </p>
- <p> Sunday: In a Central League showdown, the first-place Yomiuri
- Giants beat the second-place Hiroshima Carp 3-1, making up for
- their worst ever defeat the day before (a 19-5 loss to the Carp).
- </p>
- <p> Wednesday: Orix Blue Wave superstar Ichiro Suzuki (left), who
- tends bonsai in his off-hours, broke a 43-year-old record with
- his 192nd hit of the season (George Sisler set the U.S. record
- of 257 in 1920).
- </p>
- <p> Friday: Suzuki went hitless as the Pacific Division's first-place Seibu Lions beat the second-place Orix
- 6-1, moving four games ahead. Rain--not a labor dispute--canceled besuboru's other Friday games.
- </p>
-
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