[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 84 (Tuesday, June 17, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H3809-H3810]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     AN IMMENSE AMBITION FOR POWER

  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, ``Attention turns to Aristide as the Haitian 
Government crumbles,'' says the news report this weekend. ``An immense 
ambition for power'' is responsible for insecurity and disorder in the 
Capital, Port-au-Prince. This is how one-time confidante Paul DeJean 
describes former President and his former friend, Jean-Bertrand 
Aristide of Haiti.
  In fact, this sentiment is nothing extraordinary. If we peruse the 
weekend press on Haiti, it appears to be a mainstream opinion as Haiti 
drifts deeper into misery and despair. Reports from the wire and from 
Michael Norton of the Washington Post describe a litany of Aristide's 
increasingly obvious efforts to advance his own personal ambition at 
the expense of economic recovery and at the expense of democratization 
in Haiti.

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  President Clinton's man in Haiti is systematically destroying 
democracy there. Unfortunately, this comes at the expense of the 
American taxpayer. Members will remember that $3 billion of democracy 
building we just provided? What, we have to ask, is the White House 
going to do about their man in Haiti? Is the Clinton White House 
backing democracy in Haiti, or is it backing another darling of the 
left strong man? Is this Papa Doc all over again? We need an answer.

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