HAITI . . . U.S. GRIP COMPLETE

American troops now control the peace in Haiti, after taking over key police precincts yesterday and the Parliament and City Hall in Port-au-Prince today in anticipation of pro-Aristide Haitian legislators' return. The first U.S. fatality also surfaced today when a patrol found an American soldier who had apparently killed himself in a mansion being prepared for Haitian dignitaries. Military police strung concertina wire in front of the white colonnaded Parliament, where the lawmakers are expected to vote on an amnesty for the military junta -- a key part of the quickie deal between capo Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and former President Jimmy Carter.

Quotes of the Day »

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.
For use in rail of Articles page or Section Fronts pages. Duplicate and change name as necesssary to distinguish.