U.S. URGING HAITIANS TO RETURN HOME

Thursday, Dec. 29, 1994
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Faced with 4,400 Haitians living at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the U.S. government today said that any of those refugees who agree by Jan. 5 to return home will get $80 and job opportunities. Those who turn down the offer will be forced to return without the benefits. Most of the remaining Guantanamo refugees -- there were as many as 20,000 before the Haitian military leadership abandoned their posts in September -- are seeking resettlement in the U.S.