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At Capitol Hill hearings on the President's Haiti policy, Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch told House members that establishing a deadline for an American withdrawal from Haiti would set an "extremely bad precedent" for U.S. military policy. But he didn't persuade the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which decided to return tomorrow and draw up legislation to send troops home as soon as March 1.
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