Posted on 02/23/2004 9:51:06 PM PST by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:13:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Fifty U.S. Marines streamed into the capital of Haiti yesterday to protect the U.S. Embassy and its staff, while government loyalists set flaming barricades to block the road from rebels threatening to move on Port-au-Prince.
The United States made last-ditch efforts at finding a political solution. As an opposition coalition was on the brink of rejecting a U.S.-backed peace plan because it did not call for President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to step down, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell phoned opposition politicians and asked them to delay their formal response for 24 hours.
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