Wednesday, June 2, 2004
Rains still threaten Haitian villages
The start of Haiti’s rainy season Tuesday
brought fears that additional rain could
burst already strained dams near Mapou
and other small villages.
Port-au-
Prince Bay
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Jimani
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DOMINICAN
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SOURCE: International Committee of the Red Cross; ESRI
AP
U.N. peacekeepers face
funding problems in Haiti
By Paisley Dodds
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti
— U.N. peacekeepers took com
mand from an American-led
multinational force Tuesday,
facing uncertainty about troop
numbers and funding, while
flood victims wait for urgent
help and armed rebels roam the
countryside.
In a symbolic ceremony at
the police academy, Brazilian
army Gen. Augusto Heleno
Ribeiro Pereira took control of
the projected 8,000-strong U.N.
force, only a fraction of which
has arrived. Most of the troops
are expected by the end of June,
when U.S. forces leave.
Their initial mission will be
to provide security, which
includes disarming rebels who
helped oust President Jean-
Bertrand Aristide on Feb. 29,
and pro-Aristide militants. Both
sides have said they will disarm
if the other side does the same,
but the U.S.-led troops have col
lected fewer than 200 weapons.
“Disarmament is very
important, but what is also
important is the disarmament of
the spirit and the desire to
rebuild,” said Heleno as about
80 troops, including Brazilians,
Chilean, Canadian and
Nepalese, replaced their camou
flage caps with blue U.N. berets.
Fewer than a dozen of the
1,900 U.S. troops will stay in
Haiti with the U.N. peacekeep
ers. Troops from other countries
in the 3,600-member multina
tional force — France, Canada
and Chile — will remain until
September.
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but they're coming
in with double the
force and will be
here for twice as
much time.
— James Foley
U.S. ambassador
“The U.N. has a big job
ahead of it, but they’re coming
in with double the force and will
be here for twice as much time,”
U.S. Ambassador James Foley
told The Associated Press.
“The operation will deal with
>uppor.
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security, but it will also help the
government spread its authority,
which is not the case now,”
Foley said, noting that “rebels
are still in control of a pretty sig
nificant chunk of real estate.”
The U.N. handover comes
as the country of 8 million
copes with deadly floods that
have killed more than 1,700 in
Haiti and the Dominican
Republic. It was unclear
whether the new troops would
be involved in emergency oper
ations to flooded areas.
The United Nations says the
force will eventually number
6,700 troops and 1,622 civilian
police from over two dozen
countries, led by 1,200
Brazilian troops.
However, when, or whether,
the force will reach full
strength is unclear. Brazil,
Chile and Argentina have
pledged up to 2,500 troops.
Other countries, including
troubled nations such as Nepal
and Rwanda, have promised
750 troops each.
Haiti’s interim Prime
Minister Gerard Latortue said he
would try to persuade the
Americans to extend their June
departure, saying only U.S.
troops have a “dissuasive
effect” on the population.
Barring that, he hoped the U.N.
force would stay until Feb. 7,
2006, when an elected president
should be installed.
He also asked the internation
al community to tackle the root
of Haiti’s instability, which he
said was grinding poverty.
“What we need here is a
U.N. mission that will not limit
itself to maintaining the
peace,” Latortue told reporters
after the ceremony. “They will
have to get involved in the
development process.”
After a decade of failed mis
sions, many in the traumatized
nation wonder whether the
peacekeepers can succeed.
This U.N. mission will again
try to keep a tentative peace and
again train an ill-equipped and
understaffed police force.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi
Annan has asked member
nations to make a long-term
commitment to transform Haiti
— which has suffered more than
30 coups in 200 years — into “a
functioning democracy.” But
only a fraction of the $35 mil
lion he requested has arrived
and the mission’s mandate
remains six months.
Some Haitians are skeptical.
“I don’t understand what
they’re coming to do,” said
Marie Andre, 31, from the
flood-hit southern village of
Fond Verrettes.
U.S. troops last intervened in
Haiti in 1994 to restore Aristide
after a 1991 coup.
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Karmazin out as president of Viaco
By Seth Sutel
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Mel Karmazin, one of the
most highly regarded executives in the media
industry, resigned suddenly as the No. 2 exec
utive at Viacom Inc., the media conglomerate
that owns CBS and MTV.
He was replaced by two senior Viacom
executives, CBS head Leslie Moonves and
MTV chief Tom Freston, the company
announced Tuesday. The moves clear the way
for either Freston or Moonves to succeed
Sumner Redstone, who is 81 years old. as CEO.
Redstone agreed to step down as CEO
within three years and to designate a succes
sor sometime before then, the company said.
Given years of rumored friction between
Redstone and Karmazin, it was not clear that
Karmazin, 60, would have eventually suc
ceeded Redstone.
Redstone, speaking in a conference call
with Wall Street analysts, said it was “extreme
ly likely” that he would be succeeded by either
Freston or Moonves. While Viacom will suffer
a loss of talent with Kannazin’s departure, the
moves help clarify the company’s succession
strategy — a topic investors have been pressing
the company about.
Karmazin said in an interview that the per
sistent concerns among investors about his
relationship with Redstone were not serving
his interests or those of the company.
“I was naive enough to think that if I
signed a new contract a year ago that all of
this Mel-Sumner stuff would disappear,”
Karmazin said. “I thought it was time to
leave.” Karmazin declined to comment about
his relationship with Redstone.
Redstone has dismissed persistent con
cerns that he had a rocky relationship with
Karmazin. However, he also acknowledged
on the call that Karmazin did not discuss his
decision to resign with Redstone directly.
Instead, Redstone said he learned of
Karmazin’s decision through another execu
tive, whom he did not name.
Speaking with analysts, Redstone said
Karmazin left because of “frustration” with
the company’s sagging stock price and issues
related to the radio division, which has been
struggling.
Redstone stressed that no one at Viacom
had asked Karmazin to resign. He also said
Karmazin had been in the running as a candi
date to succeed him as CEO.
In a separate conference call with
reporters, Redstone parried several other
questions about the reasons for Karmazin’s
departure. “He just decided he was better off
going in another way,” Redstone said. “Mel
was frustrated about something — 1 hope it
wasn’t about me.”
Redstone said he regretted Karmazin’s
departure and wished him well. He also said
Karmazin would stay on as a consultant for
two months to help with the transition.
Freston, 58
Viacom named MTV chief Tom
Freston and CBS head Leslie
Moonves as Karmazin's
replacements to jointly oversee all
of the company's operations
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(Includes MTV, broadcast
Nickelodeon. television group
Comedy Central.
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SOURCE Viacom Inc
Investors have been pressing Viacom
clarify its plans for succession, especial;
given Redstone’s age. Even though Redstw
has voting control of Viacom through a spe
cial supervoting class of stock, he madecte
in his announcement that he was workin:
with the company’s board on the successioi;
issue.
Karmazin, who became the head of CBS
Corp. before it merged with Viacom it
2()0(), was highly regarded in the industp
and on Wall Street.
He worked his way up through the rank
in the radio business, and is known to M
close to several of Viacom’s leading radi
personalities including Howard Stern an:
Don firms. Imus broke the news
Karmazin’s departure Tuesday morning om
show broadcast by MSNBC.
Redstone suggested that Viacom’s
management team would consider getting ni
of the radio business, saying the compan;
would have a “hard look” at that operational
well as other assets. “There is no sacrei
cow,” Redstone said. “But for the timebein;
we’re committed to radio.”
Freston, who is 58, has been chairmanani
CEO of the MTV Networks unit since
Moonves, 54 years old, has been chairmat
and chief executive of CBS since 2003
joined CBS in 1995 as president of its enter
tainment operation.
Investors took the news of the manage
ment shakeup in stride. Viacom’s widel;
held “B” class shares closed down 39 cent
at $36.50 in heavy trading on the NewYort
Stock Exchange.
However, the sudden loss of Karmazin i
likely to disappoint many on Wall Street. Ini
note to investors, Merrill Lynch anaU
Jessica Reif Cohen called Karmazin’s depar
ture “a very significant negative” factor ft
the company since Karmazin was “at
extremely talented operating executive.”
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