European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes. World wednesday january 20,1993haitians wary As vote adds to crisis by Ron Hovell. 1new Sdiey h a Quot port-au-pr1nce, Haiti a boat people plucked from the High seas and repatriated by the . Coast guard on monday said that they would not try to make the trip again As Long As american ships formed a naval Barrier around the country. Bul while the refugee problem appeared to be easing the political crisis underlying it intensified. Against the wishes of the United nations the de Facto government held elections monday for a third of the seats in the 27-Mcmber Senate. Turnout appeared extremely Light with Many haitians saying that they did not know anything about the voting. Critics charge that the elections arc an attempt to Jack the Tipper chamber with politicians opposed to can Bertrand Aristide the democratically elected president who was ousted in an army coup sept. 30, 1991. On sunday Dante Caputo the special representative of . Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali reported Progress in negotiations to restore Aristide to Power but said that monday s elections would be an obstacle to attempts at National reconciliation. A hoping to staunch an expected exodus of tens of thousands of haitians president elect Clinton said thursday that he would continue the Bush administration policy of immediately returning All haitian boat people a shift from Campaign statements sympathetic to the fleeing haitians. In a move approved by Clinton transition officials the coast guard announced Friday a Barrier of 22 ships and a number of aircraft. Clinton has been roundly criticized for his turnabout but some say that it is now bearing fruit. T think that since the word has spread about Clinton s announcement there will be a lot less people leaving than before a said Larry Mizl commander of . Coast guard operations in port a Prince. Quot the indications right now Are that there s not much . Forty nine haitians who set sail from the town of a Cognac on Friday morning hours before the an noun Cmunt of the joint coast guard Navy blockade were dropped off at port a Prince. Quot the american Navy has a. Lot of ships in the water near Here and Cuba so there s no Way we can go Quot said Boisrond Jackson 22, one of the returnees. Quot i would like to leave Here but the same thing would happen to is again said Jerry St. Fort 24, another returnee. A Haiti a la torture Island is littered with boats being built or repaired a of the Type used to haul Asylum seekers. Quot the refugees left before Dawn Friday in a Little wooden boat named the Road to life. They were picked by the coast guard three Days later they said. Clinton is hoping to resolve the haitian political standoff and thus remove the justification cited by boat people seeking Asylum in the United states that they Are persecuted partisans of Aristide. Caputo said he took Steps toward a Resolution last weekend by getting the army and government to agree to receive a team of International human rights observers. A a. A a the . Envoy said he hoped negotiations designed Quot to restore democratic Rule to the country and to return Aristide will be held later. After the coup ousted Aristide 40,000 people fled toward Florida in rickety boats. Most were turned Back on the grounds that they were economic refugees seeking jobs rather than political Freedom and thus ineligible for Asylum. Fed up with the continued exodus Bush decided last May to automatically repatriate All boat people. The Scabo und emigration subsided. But Clinton harshly criticized the Bush policy and haitians reportedly were building boats in anticipation of a warm Welcome from the new president. The exodus resumed slightly Over the past week with More than 500 boat people picked up on the seas and repatriated Mizel said. But the numbers sailing since the Clinton announcement seem to have dropped significantly the coast guardsman  release four captives phenom penh up Khmer Rouge guerrillas tuesday freed three . Naval personnel and a. Cambodian interpreter they had been holding for two Days in Central Cambodia a . Spokesman said the two britons one chilean and the cambodian were released at about 2 . Tuesday a and Are Safe and Well a said Eric fall spokesman for the . Transitional authority in Cambodia Entac. The three Entac naval personnel went up the sen River by boat sunday with the interpreter to attend a pre arranged meeting with Khmer Rouge guerrillas at a site about 90 Miles North of phenom penh. However the Khmer Rouge detained the men who were All unarmed at a Camp on the Banks of the sen about 20 Miles West of the provincial capita of. Kampong  four men were freed tuesday after More than 48 hours of negotiations Between Entac officials and Khmer Rouge representatives in phenom penh and in Kampong Thom. The captives were it. Cmdr. Alex Manning of the British Royal Navy it. Alan Mettle of the chilean Navy sgt David of Connor of the British Royal marines and cambodian interpreter Chea Narin. It was the fifth time that Khmer Rouge guerrillas have seized . Personnel in Cambodia since the . Security Council on dec. 1 imposed sanctions against the Radical faction to Force it to comply with a peace agreement signed in Paris 15 months ago All the captives have been released unharmed. The phenom penh regime installed with the help of vietnamese occupation forces the maoist inspired Khmer Rouge and two non communist resistance groups signed the .-brokered Accord under which Entac is to take the county to elections scheduled for april or May. But the Khmer Rouge dropped out of the peace process in june charging vietnamese troops have secretly remained in the country after Hanoi s official withdrawal from Cambodia in 1989 and demanding More Power be transferred from the government to the four faction supreme National Council the Khmer Rouge was responsible for the deaths of More than 1 million cambodians during a four year reign of terror before being ousted by invading vietnamese troops in 1979. Ruling czech coalition backs Havel Voclav Havel Prague czech Republic up the ruling coalition of the czech Republic on monday nominated former czechoslovakian president Vaclav Havel As its candidate for the vacant Post of president of the new state. The coalition commands 105 scats in the 200-seat czech National Council virtually assuring Havel selection which required Only a simple majority on the first ballot. The legislature is expected thursday to set a Date for the election. Havel a playwright and human rights activist who had been imprisoned for nearly five years for his resistance to Che Chosio Akiak a communist Rule led the 1989 a velvet revolution that overthrew the marxist leadership. Reluctantly accepting the presidency of Czechoslovakia in december 1989, he ruled More by moral persuasion than by executive Power. His re election was blocked by slovak nationalists and czech leftists last june As Czechoslovakia seemed inevitably headed toward a division into separate czech and slovak states. The formal split came peacefully on Jan. 1. Months of quiet politicking for the presidential nomination by Havel however has weakened Public Confidence in his ability to serve As the country a Leader. Some political analysts claim that it has turned him into a figurehead for the Rul ing civic democratic party Only 45 percent of czech citizens now say they want him As their president Down from a High of Over 60 percent at the time of his resignation last june. He is still however the leading candidate the ruling coalition led by Havel a chief rival Premier Vaclav Klaus includes Klaus own civic democratic party the Christian democratic party the Christian democratic Union Czecho slovak Peoples party and the civic democratic Alliance in Slovakia the ruling movement for a democratic Slovakia has elected a party Deputy chairman and former Trade Union Leader roman Kovac As its presidential candidate