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Excerpt from U. S. Policy Toward Haiti: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, June 28, 1994
Senator dodd. The committee will come to order. Let me wel come everyone here this afternoon, as we conduct a hearing by the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs on u.s. Policy in Haiti. Just a couple of housekeeping notes. One, first of all, let me welcome the wife of our Ambassador in Haiti, Mrs. Swing, who is here with us in the audience, and we thank you for coming by. And second, Mexico 1, Italy 1, 30 minutes to o in the soccer match. I want to get the important information out ere. I am delighted to have as our first witness, Bill Gray, who is a very close and good friend of mine, who is acting as the special ad visor to the President and the Secretary of State on Haiti. We have got a list of other distinguished witnesses. Our colleague, Senator Bob Graham, will be appearing after Mr. Gra and then a public panel and a technical administration panel wi I appear, along with various members of the administration. What I would like to do is just take a minute or so and express some of my own initial thoughts on this, and then turn to our lead-off witness, Mr. Gray, for his comments. It is now almost 3 years since democracy was hijacked - and there is no other way to describe it - once again in Haiti. It was September of 1991 when military and security forces overthrew the lawfully elected government of jean-bertrand Aristide and began yet another chapter in Haiti's long history of violence, repression, and bloodshed. From the very beginning of the Haitian coup, the United States and its partners in the international community have sought noth ing less than the restoration of democracy in Haiti and the return of President Aristide to power. This afternoon, we will have a chance to explore, with administration witnesses and outside ex perts, our progress toward meeting that goal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
