The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 19, 1994 - T ongress, Haitians respond to agreement OCCUPATION Continued from page 1 was hopeless and agreed to relinquish wer. Paradoxically, Cedras agreed to leave Haiti last Oct. 15 under the terms of the Governors Island agree- ment that called for Aristide to regain power last Oct. 30. But Cedras reneged on the agree- ment last year, a fact that Clinton emphasized last week in announcing that the United States would invade if the Haitian military leaders did not tep down voluntarily. "This wouldn't have happened if it weren't for all those troops on the car- riers and the planes in the air," an ad- ministration official said. "It wasn'tjust Jimmy Carter's persuasive powers that got this done. "They heard about it from Colin Powell," the official added. "And if they don't listen to Colin Powell on that nd of thing, they're pretty stupid." WThroughout Carter's visit to Port- au-Prince, the Haitian capital, which began at midday Saturday, the former president had one point to make to the generals: Any refusal to give up power could lead to a "large loss of life,' including their own, according to sources briefed by Carter. Carter warned several times that "an invasion was within hours, even inutes," if they did not resign and accept the quick return of Aristide, according to the sources. The message was delivered in three meetings between Carter and Cedras and Biamby. Also attending were Powell and Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. As Carter's talks dragged on far kpnger than anyone in the White House ad expected, Clinton spent the day huddling with his top foreign policy advisers, including Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Defense Secre- tary William J. Perry, Vice President Al Gore and Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, chair of theJoint Chiefs of Staff. Accord prompts smiles, gunfire in Haiti's capital AP PHOTO Anti-invasion protesting Haitians yell out on the streets of Port-au-Prince shortly after Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras' last meeting with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter at the Presidential Palace last night. Haiti's military leaders agreed to step down after marathon talks with former President Carter, paving the way for exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's peaceful return. Capitol Hill leaders express relief, apprehension The Washington Post WASHINGTON - Congres- sional leaders last night expressed relief that the invasion of Haiti had been averted, but some expressed apprehension over how that result was reached and what happens from here. They said they believed the agree- ment with Haiti's military leadership to step down would dim congres- sional ardor for a vote this week on resolutions putting Congress on record as opposing an invasion. Rep. Robert G. Torricelli (D-N.J.) chairman of the House foreign affairs subcommittee on western hemisphere affairs, expressed "considerable re- lief' about the agreement but said the deal could have been reached "months ago," without bringing the nation to the brink of war. "I want to make certain that we're not facing a potential Somalia, that American forces will be in Haiti for a limited period and that any force will be genuinely international," said Torricelli. He said he planned imme- diate hearings on the U.S. commit- ment and the likely expense and pre- dicted there would be lingering un- happiness in Congress about the administration's willingness to pro- ceed with an invasion without obtain- ing congressional approval. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who had backed the invasion threat, disagreed with Torricelli's assessment that the deal could have been brokered earlier. Kerry said Clinton "did what he did because, without the threat of an inva- sion, there was no way to break the endless cycle." However, Kerry said the agree- ment leaves risks remaining, includ- ing the possibility that "people who have previously reneged on their words will do so again." That was a reference to the events one year ago, when Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras, the head of the Haitian armed forces, signed an agreement to relinquish power but then balked at leaving. House Foreign Affairs Chairman Lee H. Hamilton (D-Ind.) said he was "immensely pleased" by the deal and described "the credibility of the threat of force as being essential to getting this agreement." The Washington Post PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - As President Clinton concluded his an- nouncement last night that Haiti's military rulers will surrender power, a half-dozen Haitians listening to the broadcast together smiled and quietly shook hands. "This pleases me," said an aged musician named Jedeo. "It's good that they are going." "It is good, but we will still have to wait and see," said a young man named Giselle, a former army corporal who recently resigned from the military. He said that as U.S. troops prepare to restore ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power, "the most impor- tant thing is what happens among the people." If Aristide supporters "begin to attack (their enemies) in the army," he said, "the soldiers will react, and we will have fighting even with the Americans here." In general, Port-au-Prince ap- peared calm last night, with a curfew in effect. There were no public dis- plays of sentiment to indicate how Haitians felt about the soft surrender of the military regime and the immi- nent return of Aristide. In one of the city's most violent neighborhoods, Carrefours, nightly gunfire that often signals attacks by army-backed gun- men on Aristide supporters stopped for about an hour as Clinton spoke. Then it resumed as usual. Earlier in the day, this teeming capital had slowed to a near standstill as it waited - quiet, shuttered and resigned - for the promised U.S. military intervention. Streets normally pulsing with life were cloaked in a somber stillness as thousands of Hai- tians fled the city and thousands more stocked up on food and water to await the arrival of American troops - whether as invaders or as guarantors of a peaceful political transition. The only stir seemed to be in the vicinity of television cameras. Out- side army headquarters here, where former President Jimmy Carter was urging Haiti's ruling triumvirate to step aside, members of the impover- ished nation's rich and powerful elite led a few hundred demonstrators in shouting defiance. As a dozen TV cameras whirred, the crowd chanted slogans against U.S. intervention and the man the operation would return to Haiti, Aristide. But the noisy crowd demonstrated something else as well - the deep class divisions within Haitian soci- ety. Most of the protesters were fash- ionably dressed young men, while occupying the choicest vantage points - atop late-model cars and pickup; trucks - were a number of mulatto women from wealthy families that supported the military regime and the old Duvalier dictatorship before it. At the back of the crowd, poor Haitian men - their hands gnarled from heavy labor, their feet in plastic sandals - watched curiously but did not join in the sloganeering. The rich and poor did not speak to each other. "The situation is terrible," said a well-dressed woman named Regine, who was perched atop a Jeep Chero- kee with her arm around an army officer. "Because of the American oppres- sion against us, I cannot buy my chil- dren schoolbooks; we cannot even go to the beach. We will fight the Ameri- can soldiers, and many of us will die," she said But beyond the protest scene, Port- au-Prince was hunkered down. "Fight them?" exclaimed one man in won-. der. 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