HAITI . . . ARISTIDE'S FIRST DAY AT WORK

President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, standing behind a bulletproof shield on which his security detail insisted, pleaded with Haitians to remain calm after enraged supporters killed one man and torched 15 buildings last night. The attack on Gonaives, 100 miles north of Port-au-Prince, followed a false rumor that junta holdover Major General Jean-Claude Duperval -- the Haitian army commander until Aristide names a replacement -- had led a coup against Aristide. This morning the reinstalled President underscored his plea by having Duperval help him raise Haiti's flag at the National Palace. Also today, U.S. forces reported the third suicide by an American soldier during Operation Uphold Democracy, this one apparently the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the Port-au-Prince military airfield.

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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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