HAITI . . . THE EMBARGO'S ON BUT, HEY, SO'S THE WORLD CUP
Hundreds of people jammed the airport in Port-au-Prince to catch final flights to Miami and New York City, as the rest of the country put the international crisis on hold for World Cup soccer. The U.S.-led commercial travel ban, designed to budge the ruling junta, kicks in at midnight, and about half the 8,000 Americans in Haiti are expected to leave the country. But even as the deadline approached, virtually everyone took time out to watch local favorites Cameroon and Brazil face off. "This place is a powder keg, and it could go off at any minute," TIME correspondent Cathy Booth says from Haiti. "But there's one thing everyone has in common -- they're all soccer fanatics."
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