Volume 41, Number 11 · June 9, 1994

Blindness in Haiti

By Murray Kempton

To serve one's government and at the same time try to serve the cause of truth is a necessarily surreptitious activity. And so we have little chance ever to know just who filched and opened up to public notice United States Ambassador to Haiti William Swing's April 12 cable warning Secretary of State Warren Christopher that exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide 'and his supporters in Washington and here consistently manipulate or even fabricate human rights abuses as a propaganda tool.'



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