Haiti plunges deeper into crisis

HAITI plunged deeper into crisis yesterday as political opponents of President Jean Bertrand Aristide rejected international appeals to accept a power-sharing plan that stops short of the embattled leader's departure.

Haiti plunges deeper into crisis

At the same time, the United States ordered the departure of most of its remaining diplomats, citing unstable security amid the spread of an armed insurgency.

The move by the US State Department is likely to fuel an exodus from Haiti of hundreds of US, Canadian and French citizens, mostly aid workers and missionaries, spurred by increasingly dire warnings that the country might descend into anarchy.

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