7022: Re: 7006: The Call (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Philippe Charles <pcharles@us.ibm.com>

Richard:

    Let me first take this opportunity to thank you for all the "on the
ground"
reports and comments you have been posting to Corbettland. I found this
latest
one particularly interesting and intriguing. Why do you suppose some people
from
the US embassy and Washington wanted to know your opinion regarding whether
or
not there ought to be presidential elections in Haiti ?


> Brief introductions and handshakes were
> exchanged and without asking me to sit down they asked me if I thought
there
> ought to be presidential elections in the following month (Dec. '95).
Three
> of the men I recognized from the embassy, though two had recently left.
The
> other two or three were from Washington.

--philippe