Haiti's civilian leaders, including President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, have recently agreed to a plan for resolving the nation's political crisis. But the Haitian army remains the key to the plan's success. For as the army created that crisis late last September when it overthrew Aristide, the first freely elected president in Haiti's history, so it will determine whether the artfully vague agreement put together in Washington on February 23 will succeed in ending it.
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