The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 20, 1994 - 7
Carter, Clinton
differ on Haiti
From Daily Wire Services
WASHINGTON - Jimmy Carter
just wouldn't budge.
Before President Clinton's news
conference on Haiti yesterday, White
House aides had carefully marked where
the former president and his fellow
negotiators, retired Gen. Colin Powell
and Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) should
stand near the podium.
But when Carter arrived, he stood in
the place marked for Nunn - the fur-
thest from Clinton-and no amount of
coaxing could persuade him to move.
The incident, while minor, illus-
trates the tension between the current
Democratic president and the previous
one, even while Carter has twice this
year -- in North Korea and now Haiti
- helped pull the Clinton administra-
tion from the path toward war.
Clinton stood by as Carter, briefing
congressional leaders at the White
House on his mission to Haiti, offered a
quite different view of Cedras: He was
not a dictator, and to call him that was
"plain wrong." Cedras had not led the
coup against President Jean-Bertrand.
Aristide but had saved his life during
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if no law is passed.
Another danger is that the junta's
supporters could launch attacks on
theestimated 3,000 U.S. citizens here.
Shelton said Cedras identified some
areas of the town where he was par-
ticularly concerned about the safety
of Americans.
The first U.S. paratroop units to
land quickly became more the sub-
jects of curiosity than animosity as
hundreds of ordinary Haitians headed
the coup, Carter said. Forcing him into
exile was wrong.
How Clinton - wanting to avoid a
hugely unpopular and risky military
invasion - came to accept Carter's
view is much ofthe story of the last four
days. Clinton ended up adjusting his
policies in the face of Carter's argu-
ments that he had misunderstood Cedras
and the Haitian psyche. Over the course
of more than 20 hours of negotiation
between Haiti and Washington, the
Clinton policy became Carterized, its
edges rounded, its demands softened,
its rhetoric muted. And it produced, 30
minutes beforea final deadline, an agree-
ment sufficient to halt an invasion sched-
uled to begin at 12:01 a.m. yesterday.
In North Korea four months ago,
Carter effectively derailed a U.S.-led
drive for international sanctions over
that country's nuclear program when
he announced he had negotiatedafreeze
on the program in exchange for new
talks between the United States and
North Korea. Carter told reporters later
that he undertook the mission to
Pyongyang because Clinton's policy
would have led to war.
AP PHOTO
President Clinton, accompanied by (from left to right President Jimmy Carter, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and former
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, meets reporters at the White House yesterday for a news
conference to discuss the situation in .
Administration officials said that
Carter returned with the news that
Cedras would not speak with any offi-
cial of the United States government.
Clinton decided then, despite sharp+
opposition from Secretary of State
Warren Christoper, that Carter would
Powell fuels
speculation
of political
ambitions
The Baltimore Sun
WASHINGTON - Last year, as
Gen. Colin L. Powell was retiring as
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a
seniorWhite House official approached
a confidant of the general's with an
intriguing feeler: What would it take,
the official asked, to get Powell into the
Clinton administration?
"Well, he might be interested in
secretary of state," the general's friend
said.
"Thatjob is taken," the White House
official said.
"Yes, I know, but that's not the
question you asked," he replied.
A similar dance has been going on
for nearly two years regarding
America's most popular military man.
Secretary of state? Vice presidential
nominee? Presidential candidate?
At the end of last week, Powell,
whose 35-year military career culmi-
nated with direction of the stunning
military successes of the Persian Gulf
war, was given another mission - one
that is both high profile and high-risk.
Joining former President Carter and
Senate Armed Services Chairman Sam'
Nunn (D-Ga.)he accepted the mission
of trying to broker a last-minute deal in
Haiti aimed at avoiding bloodshed.
Carter may be the leader of the delega-
tion, butamong thethree Powell istheone
who generates the most intensive political
speculation. "Obviously, Colin Powell is
theclosestwehavetoamilitaryhero,"said
historian Stephen Hess of the Brookings
Institution. "He gives his seal of approval
to anything that might happen (in Haiti)
after that. ..."
Hess also noted that, as a black with
a heritage in the Caribbean - his par-
ents were Jamaican - Powell had an
additional advantage in the Haitian capi-
tal of Port-au-Prince: "He gives confi-
dence to the Haitian people."
betheenvoy toCedras, andthatCedras'
immediate resignation and departure.
from the country would not be require-
ments. The public announcement of
Carter's mission but not the shift in
policy - was made Friday.
In making theannouncement, White
for the city's airport to watch the
troop-carrying helicopters and C-141
cargo planes land with their mixture
of military personnel, supplies and
humanitarian aid.
A Haitian businessperson, who
gave his name only as Pierre, watched
the troops arrive and said: "I don't
want the American government to
come here and do nothing (for the
people). They can't come here just to
put the generals out. They have to do
something."
Jean Brun, who lost his job as an
airport porter when Aristide was
ousted in 1991, said: "I came to see
what was happening. There is no unity
between the Haitian people. That's
why the American troops are here. I
am waiting for them to take over. I
don't know if there is going to be
change. I hope so. I am happy." The
airport perimeter was quickly secured.
U.S. troops, armed with light weap-
ons, stood almost shoulder to shoul-
der outside the passenger terminal,
while others squatted in the sun-baked
grass along the landing strip.
"I had rather be here on vacation"
quipped army Sgt. James Hill from
Arcadia, La., as he sweltered under
his helmet and bullet proof vest in the
'I had rather be here on
vacation'
- Sgt. James Hill
Arcadia, La.
full heat of a Caribbean midday sun.
U.S. officials said that troops
would mainly be housed in tents at the
airport. Military commanders in
Washington and here were consider-
ing whether the U.S. mission should
include an attempt to disarm the
paramilitaries, thousand of whom rou-
tinely and publicly carry weapons.
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House officials described the "genius"
of adding Powell, former chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Nunn,
chairman of the Senate Armed Services
Committee, to be Carter's partners. The
White House did not say it was Carter's
genius that produced the combination.
But - in one of several apparent
contradictions between accounts by
Carter and the White House - the
former president said yesterday that
days before he offered to make the trip,
he had obtained the agreement of the
two to accompany him if Clinton ap-
proved.
Carter's mandate, Lake said Friday,
was to negotiate the departure ofCedras
and two key deputies in accordance
with United Nations resolutions autho-
rizing military force to restore Aristide.
Officials said the scope was narrow
and the timing tight: Get Cedras to
understand he must leave and do it by
noon on Sunday. A military action was
imminent and its timing would not be
changed to accommodate any desire by
Carter to talk further.
But Carter had other ideas.
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