20276: Esser: So, Haiti is of no importance? (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: D. Esser torx@joimail.com


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Thursday, March 11, 2004

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Features

Sweatshops en Route to Haiti? (4:04)
A U.S. delegation that met with deposed Haitian President Jean
Bertrand Aristide in the Central African Republic has returned to the
U.S.  At a DC press conference members of the delegation said that
Aristide is still being held against his will and that it is the
French and the U.S. who are calling the shots there.  

*** Meanwhile,
since Aristide's departure from Haiti, a new bill is moving through
the U.S. Congress that would create incentives for the garment
industry to set up shop in the island nation.  Mitch Jeserich has
more from Capitol Hill.***
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