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Friday, October 29,1993
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Haitian army resisting the return of democracy
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Haiti's ousted president, his hopes of returning to power by this weekend all but gone, called yesterday for a total trade embargo to force out the country's military leaders.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide said he would not waver in his fight to restore Haiti to democracy. But he reiterated that he would not return until army commander Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras steps down.
Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected president, was to return by tomorrow under a U.N.-brokered agreement reached in July with Cedras, leader of the bloody September 1991 coup.
But the army has violently resisted the agreement, which called for the ruling military to resign. A transition
An oil and weapons embargo, imposed by the Security Council on the military government last week, has nearly brought transport in Haiti to a standstill. The council also ordered that the assets of anti-democratic forces in Haiti be frozen to pressure the military rulers to step down
government has been unable to fully take control, and violence has heightened tensions.
In the face of continued military intransigence, the council also plans to discuss expanding sanctions to a full trade embargo, halting commercial air traffic to Haiti and denying visas to those who obstructed Aristide's return, said President Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg.
Aristide called on the international community to tighten the screws.
"We request a total and complete blockade, which is necessary, even
essential," he told the 184-nation General Assembly in a 25-minute speech.
During the speech, an estimated 5,000 Haitians rallied outside the United Nations to show support for Aristide.
Aristide called for an air embargo in addition to the current naval blockade but said logistics would have to be worked out with the United Nations.
In a news conference afterward, Aristide said the Haitian people would prefer an embargo to "death by weapons."
In Washington, Mike Barnes, an Aristide lawyer, said that Aristide also wanted sanctions against individuals responsible for the failure of the agreement, including a freezing of individual bank accounts and lifting of travel visas.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A two-ton chunk of Chinese satellite plunged back into the atmosphere yesterday, took a 1,000-mile detour and dropped into the Pacific Ocean west of Peru.
Satellite crashes into Pacific
Until the last moments, trackers at the U. S. Space Command expected the satellite to drop into the Pacific 500 miles west of the Baja California Peninsula along the Tropic of Cancer
Chinese spacecraft lands 1,000 miles off projected course
Space debris traveling 17,000 miles
an hour takes unpredictable twists and turns when it brakes in the thickening atmosphere. Maj. Richard Butt likened the effect to dropping a penny into water.
"Sometimes it goes straight down and sometimes it turns end over end and changes direction," he said. "The same thing happens when an object hits the atmosphere."
Butt said there were no immediate reports that the falling spacecraft had been sighted by anyone. It was daylight over the Pacific at the time of the satellite's descent. At night, such returning objects provide a spectacular light show as friction from the atmosphere heats them.
microgravity experiments and a diamond-studded medallion of Mao Tsetung. It was launched Oct. 8 from the Jiuquan Launch Center in the Gobi Desert on a Long March rocket. Ten days later, a capsule containing the experiments was to have separated and parachuted to Earth for retrieval.
China said the satellite carried
But when Chinese ground controllers radioed the re-entry commands on Oct.18, the satellite went out of control, split in two and stayed in orbit. Its orbit took it over every major land mass and continent except Antarctica.
Earlier yesterday, the Chinese space agency said the satellite would remain in orbit for at least six months more before it crashed through the atmosphere.
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