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Preval wants the U.N. to maintain a security presence in Haiti for six months beyond its current commitment, which expires at the end of February. About 2,000 troops, mostly Canadian, would stay if the U.N. approves the request, but the last American soldiers are expected to leave the country this spring. In his last official act as president on Tuesday, Aristide resumed diplomatic relations with Cuba.

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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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