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In pt mber 1991, those now unl hing a
reign of en-or in H i i sta a bloody coup t�at
ov rthr w P iden J n- lertrand Aristide,
who had won 67 per nt of the vote in field of
11 candidat . In a bold roke last summer,
President Clinton brok red the Governors I -
land agr ment, commit ing his Administra
tion to he returrrofPr ident Aristide to Haiti.
Ye now, 1 than a year la r, the President
has abandon d Mr. Aristide and has failed to
tand up to H iti' military rulers.
The U . has neither the means nor the re
sponsibili y to right all of the world' wrongs.
But the Hai ians do h v a right to feel betrayed
by President Clinton, and they are not alone.
Officials at the Defense and State Depart
ments have hared with me their frustration
. over Mr. Clinton's failure to use his enormous
power in add ing the crisis in Haiti. U.S.
policy, they y, ha n left lar ly in the
h of . pecial r on
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five states. Half of th hospitals
were in large cities, 15 percent
were in rural towns and 35 per
cent were advanced teaching
hospitals in major cities.
Less than halfofthe very sick
Black and poor patients were
put into intensive care units, as
opposed to 70 percent of the
other similarly ill Medicare pa
tients, Dr. Kahn said. Over all,
Dr Khan. added, the survival
rate of Blacks and whites was
the same. This is because many
more Blacks went to urban
. teaching hospitals where the
quality of care is much higher
than at the other types of hospi
tals, she said.
In the second study, re
searchers examined data col
lected from 1988 to 1990 for
treatment for heart attacks on
33,641 'VI terans who went to the
nation's V A. hospitals.
The 4,522 Blac treated
were '33� I likely than whites
to have cathe eI'S inserted into
their hearts to look for damaged
arteries, 42 percent I likely to
have blocked arteries reamed
with balloons or similar devices,
and 54 rcent less likely to un
dergo heart bypass surgery, id
Dr Eric Peterson, a Duke U ni
versity Medical Center cardiolo-'
gist who helped conduct the
tudy, hich was analyzed at
th W t Roxbury V.A. Hospital
in M achuset.
It IS not clear why Black pa
ien who got I treatment
long as whit t
ive treatment, Dr.
P terson aid. Perhaps the
whites are getting too much
treatment, he said.
of Vet
, J Brown, said
med about the pos-
r cial bi in th
eli ry of are a V.A. H pi
ddmg, "I will do whatever
�cay-" to sure that vet-
r n re treated equally."
Although Black and poor pa-
ay
tients did not experience higher
death rates in either study;
these studies should encourage
all medical professionals to re
flect on and explore the quality
of care they provide," to Black
and poor patients, said Dr. John
Z. Ayanian.a medical instructor
and health care analyst at Har
vard Medical School.
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Manuel id.
Manuel said the shifting of
arge amounts of capital 'out of
South Africa by white busi
n es and individuals - 11 bil
lion rand (dlrs 3.1 billion) in
1993 - was a concern.
But he said it was expected in
the volatile atmosphere that had
proceeded the first elections to
include the black majority.
celt's been like that in any
transition, anywhere in the
world " Manuel said.
Manuel and Jay Naidoo, who
he ds th ANC's r onstruction
and development effort, said the
"final" program released Tues-
day could till altered.
THE it i f)l, ..
holding discussion with all
groups with a stake in the eco
nomic progr m, including the
private or, for ign inv tors
and trade unions.
Th programaims to provide
2.5 million jobs and I ctrify 2.5'
million homes over th next five
years.
Nationalization remains an
option, but Manuel said it was
only "one possibility in a range of
possibilities. "
Th AN r moved th ection
in previous versions that tated
its intention to maintain a
budget deficit of no more than
six percent of GDP.
However, Manu I aid he ex
pects to keep th budget deficit
at around. 6.2 percent of GDP.
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