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Article: Hope for Haiti? U.S. troops try to bring democracy to troubled nation.(includes chronology)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- October 10, 1994
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The first soldiers arrived in the bright sunlit morning of September 19. They came from the sky in whirling helicopters and from the sea in sleek gray ships.
To many people on the Caribbean island nation of Haiti, the arrival of U.S. soldiers last month to restore Haiti's elected president was a startling spectacle. Most Haitians had never seen the huge machines of modern war and the concentrated firepower of the U.S. armed forces. Throughout Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, people gathered on rooftops to watch U.S. troops move in from the air and sea.
Many of the Haitians cheered and waved to the U.S. soldiers, who waved back. By ...