11.   Charges that a Haitian immigrant was severely beaten and sodomized by police officers in a Brooklyn station house are erupting into a major scandal.

12.   Clinton scored potential domestic political benefits by using a blend of military might and last-ditch diplomacy to stanch the threatened outflow of Haitian immigrants to Florida.

13.   Constant now lives in Queens, where he says he is innocent but where his presence has angered many Haitian immigrants and human rights advocates who want him extradited.

14.   Haitian immigrants also face a severe housing crisis, they say, with many of them crowding in small apartments, with no one to turn to.

15.   He has been accused of ramming a stick into the rectum of Louima, a Haitian immigrant, at a Brooklyn station house in August.

16.   He is charged with restraining Louima, a black Haitian immigrant, while another white officer, Justin A. Volpe, sodomized Louima with a broken broomstick.

17.   His campaign picked up strength last month, with the savage police beating of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima.

18.   In a city often accused of being overly segregated, many Cuban and Haitian immigrants agreed Monday that the government should treat all asylum seekers equally.

19.   In the case of Louima, a Haitian immigrant who is black, the four officers accused of attacking him are white.

20.   It is also the district of Abner Louima, the Haitian immigrant who was allegedly tortured and sodomized last summer by white police officers.