LOOKING FOR ACTION IN HAITI

Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott led a high-level U.S. business delegation to Haiti on a two-day mission that the Clinton Administration hopes will trigger quick and massive investment in the hemisphere's poorest country. The task is hardly hopeless: TIME correspondent Tammerlane Drummond reports that recent international aid to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's new government already tops $1 billion -- more, per capita, than any other country in the world has received. Drummond, who recently visited the Haitian capital, says a virtual army of American small businessmen is already swarming Port-au- Prince looking for a piece of the action.