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Article: To Clinton, Mission Accomplished; to Haitians, Hopes Dashed
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- The Washington Post
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- March 30, 1995
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Almost as soon as 20,000 U.S. troops landed here Sept. 19 to
restore President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power, the expectations
of the Haitian people and the reality of the limited American mission
clashed, gradually turning euphoria into indifference and sometimes
hostility.
For President Clinton, who arrives here Friday to turn over
command of the remaining U.S. troops to the United Nations, the Haiti
mission was narrowly defined, and a success. The mission was to
return Aristide and give Haitians time to begin to rebuild their
battered nation without the climate of terror that pervaded during
military rule.
But many Haitians hoped and expected the United States to take a
much broader ...