1.  And the Haitian opposition has leapt at the chance to boycott a vote that it always knew it would lose.

2.  Aristide drew laughter as he recalled a Haitian opposition leader who swore that Aristide, then living in Washington, D.C., would never return to Haiti.

3.  Fortune was arrested Monday after a shootout at a meeting of Haitian opposition leaders in the southern town of Les Cayes.

4.  Gabriel Fortune was arrested Monday after a shootout at a meeting of Haitian opposition leaders in the southern town of Les Cayes.

5.  The Haitian opposition on Wednesday rejected a settlement to end its political standoff with the government, calling it a ruse intended to restore the flow of foreign aid.

6.  Separately, a Haitian opposition movement protested the crackdown on its members by the military leadership.