19820: anonymous: overheard conversation and street chats... (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

Right now, 3:45PM march the 4th:

>From a cyber-cafe, a man talk to his family in the Diaspora to give some
news:

 "I saw how things are... it is weird... American soldiers on the Palais
 National grouds with heavy weapons... and what is more strange is I
 passed by the Primature, [Prime Minister, Neptune, Residence]... The
 same, american soldiers inside... to protect him... that means it is only
 half Aristide that left [se yon mwatye Titid k ale selman]"


 This I heard yesterday from several people in casual chats when they were
 sure not to be overheard by "chimeres"...


 This morning a moto-taxi driver told me as we were speaking about the so
 called Abduction or kidnapping of Arisitide:
 "Only thing I hope is that they won't send him back!"
 Two days before, some chimeres gun-pointed him and stole the 1500 gourdes
 he had made this day, and even the "adoken" (5 gourds coins) he had in
 his pocket...