Haiti's Jean-Bertrand Aristide: The Once and Future President

The Aristide who goes back to take charge of Haiti is not the same man who fled after the coup

For a man used to spending long hours of exile alone in his small apartment, playing the guitar, taping weekly radio speeches and talking on the phone to faraway friends, life changed abruptly last week. From the moment Bill Clinton finally decided to restore him to power, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the duly elected President of Haiti, found himself bustling about the heady business of a chief of state. He has been told to be ready to fly home within days of the U.S. takeover.

Aristide has been meeting daily with William Gray, Clinton's special envoy, with senior officials from the State Department,...

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