Pressure on Aristide to quit as rebels gain

REBEL forces virtually isolated Haiti President Jean Bertrand Aristide yesterday as international pressure mounted on the beleaguered leader to quit.

A new rebel group seized Haiti's third-largest city, Les Cayes, in the three-week-old uprising, and the main rebel leader said his forces were in the town of Jeremie in their first push into the country's southern peninsula.

As the United States and France made clear that Aristide should resign, the rebels freed about 67 prisoners in Mirebalais, about 25 miles northeast of Port-au-Prince, witnesses said.