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The continuing violence apparently has U.S. officials on edge. Defense Secretary William Perry, in France, said Port-au-Prince will be "blanketed with soldiers" in a U.S. effort to keep peace. At the White House, President Clinton extended a declaration of national emergency over Haiti, but officials said U.S. troop levels probably won't swell above the current 20,000.

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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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