The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 27,1 993 -7 .Haitian parliament refuses to grant amnesty to coup leaders Anger and unrest mount among citizens as United Nations-imposed oil embargo causes devastatingly low gasoline supply PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Gun-toting soldiers barged past waiting motorists to commandeer dwindling gasoline supplies yester- day, as a global oil embargo aimed * restoring democracy squeezed Haiti harder. Parliament was again unable to muster a quorum to pass laws that could end the crisis. Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras, head of the military that toppled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991, wants the parlia- mnsnt to grant an amnesty to those iqvolved in murders since the coup. Many legislators are in hiding at %jme or abroad, afraid that anti- Aristide thugs will kill them if they appear in public. Political violence blamed on the rWing military, as well as the nilitary's intransigence, has ham- pored efforts to bring Aristide home uderaU.N.-brokered accord signed i4 July. Under the agreement signed by edras and Aristide, the military chief was to have resigned last week, while Aristide, the country's first freely elected leader, is to return .Read Dailey Opwon Saturday. The United Nations imposed the oil and arms embargo Oct. 18, after Cedras showed growing unwilling- ness to step down and military- backed workers turned back a U.S. ship carrying U.N. workers who were to help implement the agree- ment. A U.S. Embassy spokesperson, Stanley Schrager, yesterday char- acterized the political efforts to re- turn Aristide as "stymied." Because of insufficient fuel, de- liveries of drinkable water to the capital's huge Cite Soleil slum were cut by two-thirds yesterday. Yesterday, armed thugs at one station commandeered buckets of gasoline then sold it nearby for $6 a gallon. The only people seen leav- ing the station with gasoline were carrying guns. Scattered shooting was reported in some sections of the capital. Gun- shots killed a 25-year-old woman inside her home yesterday, inde- pendent Radio Metropole reported. Another man was found shot to death on the streets of the Bel-Air neigh- 'They just want us to listen to their music, which is machine guns.' - Jules resident of Gonaives, Haiti uled return of Aristide. Fils would not identify the three, saying: "That is your job." Several people in Gonaives said the stations did not give such a mes- sage and were guilty only of playing Haitian music. "They just want us to listen to their music, which is machine guns," a city resident, Jules, said by telephone. He gave only his first name for fear of retribution. Since Aristide's ouster, mostrural stations have been shutdown through repression of lackofelectricity. Many journalists are in hiding or outside the country, and many still working prac- tice self-censorship. Also yesterday, aU.S. CoastGuard cutter intercepted 15 people trying to flee the country. Read Daily Sports borhood. Seven civilian army auxiliaries beat up, robbed and then dragged a street vendor into her home and raped her in the capital's Petionville suburb Monday evening, neighbors said. The United States maintained a security alert for its nationals. Schrager, the U.S. Embassy spokes- person, said there had been "uncon- firmed threats that mid-level Ameri- can diplomats or people who work for international organizations" might become targets of violence. Tworadio stations were shutdown Monday in Gonaives, 90 miles north of the capital. A radio journalist and two technicians were arrested in the closings remained jailed yesterday. The head of the Gonaives military district, Capt. 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