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- <text id=91TT2754>
- <title>
- Dec. 09, 1991: Hoping to Profit from Tragedy
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 09, 1991 One Nation, Under God
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 21
- Hoping To Profit From Tragedy
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- <p>By Janice Castro/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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