81.   Haitian refugees being kept at the US Guantanamo base in Cuba will likely start returning home next week, the Pentagon said Thursday.

82.   Haitian refugees jammed into the tent cities at the base ended their three-day hunger strike Sunday, but threatened to resume it if conditions did not improve.

83.   He has gone so far as to accuse them of ignoring the plight of Haitian refugees and implicitly called them racists.

84.   He said Gray also hoped for support from CARICOM members in coping with the exodus of Haitian refugees.

85.   He said the massive exodus of Haitian refugees represented a threat to Caribbean stability.

86.   In a related development, the Dominican Republic allowed the first group of Haitian political refugees to enter the country on their way to asylum in the United States.

87.   It is the first host-nation commitment since President Bill Clinton announced the phasing out of the US policy to return immediately Haitian refugees without a hearing.

88.   A group of US military officials arrived in Jamaica Thursday to oversee the operation of a US processing center for Haitian refugees.

89.   Among his concerns were the possibility of a massive Haitian refugee wave flooding the United States, drug trafficking in Haiti, and US economic interests.

90.   Another topic of discussion was the return next week of the first Haitian refugees from the US naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba, said Sullivan.