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Haiti operation to cost $250 million
U.S. troops could leave in December
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military effort in Haiti will cost the Pentagon about $250 million over the rest of the year, forcing it to ask Congress for more money, Defense Secretary William Perry said Thursday.
He said about 11,000 U.S. troops would be in Haiti by Thursday night as part of Operation Uphold Democracy, and the earliest they could begin to withdraw would be after Haitian parliamentary elections set for December. It is too early to predict when all the troops would be out, he said.
Asked about remarks by LL Gen.
Raoul Cedras, head of the military
junta, that he planned to stay in Haiti
after relinquishing power, Perry said
he believed Cedras and his top aides
would choose to leave, but added,
"We're not going to force them out."
Perry, speaking in Norfolk, Va., after meeting with U.S. sailors and officers of U.S. Atlantic Command, said the cost by the end of September would be about $50 million, plus an additional $200 million through December.
The money is coming from the Defense Department's existing funds but will put such a squeeze on the bud.
The $250 million is what Perry called an incremental expense — the amount beyond what these particular forces would be spending on normal peacetime training.
get that congressional leaders already have been told the department intends to request an extra appropriation, Perry said.
Key House Democrats said they were drafting legislation that would authorize the military action in Haiti but only until Feb. 1 or March 1, when the mission would have to be turned over to an international United Nations force.
On Capitol Hill, lawmakers in both parties vied to place limits on the deployment.
Republican officials said they were likely to have their own proposal, and Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., filed legislation urging Democrats to immediately schedule a debate and vote "upon the scope of and authorization for" the military operation.
Perry said that once Haitian police trained by multinational forces have begun operating and a fair parliamentary election is held, "then I think it's time to consider whether we can begin to pull our forces out."
About 40 percent of the U.N. forces that would remain in Haiti would be American, he said.
Day 4 in Haiti
Rules of engagement for U.S. troops in Haiti
U. S. military police arrive in Haiti to help curb violent attacks by Haitian police on civilians
Respond with force against any acts of hostile intent
Repel hostile acts with necessary force
May use force to stop,
disarm, detain members of
Haitian military, police or
other armed persons
committing hostile acts or
showing hostile intent
DISMANTLING HEAVY WEAPONS:
U. S. Special Forces occupy arms camp and destroy heavy weapons, munitions; the heavy weapons unit was instrumental in the 1992 coup that overthrew Aristide
SOURCE: Defense Department; research by PAT CARR
Knight-Ridder Tribune/KUN TIAN
Former officer testifies about Tailhook gantlet
The Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — A former Navy officer sobbed as she told of being sexually assaulted by fellow officers at the 1991 Tailhook convention.
Kim Ponikowski, her testimony often inaudible, told a federal court jury that several men grabbed her breasts and legs as she tried to make her way along a third-floor hallway at the Las Vegas Hilton to a suite her squadron had rented.
"It was so sick," Ponkowski sad,
her voice shaking. "It was so sick"
booed. It was so unnatural, so bizarre."
Ponikowski said she swung at a man who was grabbing her breasts, striking him in the face.
Another man then pinned her hands behind her back, Poniikowski testified. "There were hands all over my body," she said. "My mind just kind of shut off. Then I was standing alone."
Ponikowski's testimony came yesterday in the federal trial of a lawsuit filed by former admiral's aide Paula Coughlin, who blew the whistle on military aviators' bawdy behavior at the convention.
Coughlin is among about 90 women who claim they were groped and fondled on the convention's final night. A dozen women have filed lawsuits in state and district
"Everyone in the hallway just
Coughlin, who has yet to testify, is suing the Las Vegas Hilton and Hilton Hotel Corp. for an unspecified amount, claiming they should have provided security to prevent the attack. She reached a settlement with the Tailhook Association earlier this month for an undisclosed sum.
court here.
Ponikowski, 26, of Vero Beach,
Fla., is one of those suing the Las
Vegas Hilton and the San Diego-
based Tailhook Association.
She testified she saw no unusual activity on the third floor the first two nights of the event; then on the final night, she went looking for friends at her squadron's suite.
AIDS patient wins discrimination suit
The Associated Press
The department sued the Castle Dental Center in Houston last year for alleged violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act when it told Harrison J. Totten it would no longer treat him.
WASHINGTON — In the first settlement of its kind, a Texas man who tested positive for the AIDS virus will receive $100,000 in damages and penalties from a dentist who refused to continue to treat him, the Justice Department said yesterday.
Dr. Jack Castle, owner of the dental center, must pay $80,000 in compensatory damages to Totten. Castle Dental Center and its management company, Family Dental Services of Texas, Inc., each will pay $10,000 in civil damages.
The suit alleged that after getting braces, Totten was continuing treatment at the center until it learned that he had tested positive for HIV in the spring of 1992.
"At that time, Totten allegedly received a letter stating 'due to the recent discovery of your health problems, Castle Dental Center has decided to cease providing you with orthodontic treatment," the department said.
Sentence upped after cussing
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — Derrick Shaw could pay a heavy price for cursing out the judge who sentenced him — an extra 35 to 70 years in prison.
Right after Judge Ricardo C. Jackson sentenced Shaw to a 7 1/2-to-15 year term for a 1993 kidnapping and armed robbery, Shaw yelled curses at him and called the judge a "house nigger," according to a transcript of
Tuesday's proceedings. Both men are black.
Jackson called Shaw, 24, back before the bench and resentenced him to the maximum 42 1/2 to 85 years.
"If the matter ever comes to me for recommendation for parole, I'm going to say 'No,' Jackson told Shaw. "You should serve every second of your sentence because of your contemptuous attitude to the court."
Vietnam colonel declared killed
The Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — Dorothy Shelton traveled the world for 25 years, seeking some shred of proof that her flyer husband, shot down over Laos, might be alive. Finally, she gave up hope, committing suicide four years ago.
Tuesday, Air Force Col. Charles E. Shelton, the last officially designated Vietnam-era prisoner of war, was declared killed in action.
His status as America's last remaining POW in Vietnam had symbolized U.S. determination to make sure every MIA in southeast Asia was accounted for.
The Sheltons' five children had asked for the change.
"I personally cannot imagine him being alive still," son John Shelton said from his Los Angeles home Wednesday. "We want to put it behind us. It's shaped our lives, and we want to take control and shape our own lives."
Man beat to death over spare change
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Police yesterday searched for a man they said beat to death another man who asked him for 12 cents in a convenience store.
Kenneth R. Revels, 39, of Kansas City, Mo. died early Wednesday, after being attacked shortly before midnight Tuesday inside a Handy Stop store in midtown Kansas City, police said.
Store manager Zubair Khalid said yesterday that the employee working at the store saw the fight and immediately called 911 but did not try to intervene.
"I don't suggest my guys working interfere in something because who knows what (weapons) they have?" Khalid said. "I would have tried to stop it" but cannot ask employees to do the same, he said.
Witnesses outside the store told police the fight began when Revels asked the other man for 12 cents. Instead of looking for change, the suspect shoved Revels on the chest. When Revels grabbed a bottle to defend himself, the man hugged him and apologized.
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