THANKS FOR NOTHING

Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who had been silent for two days, came out with a weak but public thank you for the efforts to restore him to power. He is still sour because the Haiti peace agreement doesn't boot the junta from his country altogether. Indeed, he uttered the note of gratefulness only after some arm-twisting from top Administration officials, who then escorted him to a Pentagon ceremony that included a 21-gun salute.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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