The more I do this blogging thing, the more I recognize how misleading newspaper headlines are. Prof. DeLong complains about the press corp…I think he's up past 50 installments in the series…misrepresenting economic realities (to use the term "realities" rather loosely). I think we have to expect them to misrepresent something as complex as macroeconomics when they can't even get the headline to be about the major point of the stories they're attached to.

By Michael Norton, Associated Press, 2/16/2004

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Defying government loyalists, more than 1,000 protesters demonstrated against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide yesterday as exiled paramilitary forces joined rebels in a bloody uprising that has killed about 50 people.

Shouting "Down with Aristide!" members of a broad opposition alliance known as the Democratic Platform marched through Port-au-Prince, saying they did not support violence but shared the same goal as the rebels -- ousting the embattled president.

"We're still dealing with pacific, nonviolent means, but let me tell you, we have one goal," said Gilbert Leger, an attorney and opposition member. "We do support [rebel] efforts."

After a peaceful march, demonstrators ended the protest about a quarter of the way through when police told them they would have to change the route because of security concerns.

Militants loyal to Aristide crushed a similar antigovernment demonstration Thursday, stoning opponents and blocking the protest route. The government said between seven and a dozen attackers have been arrested, but a foreign technical adviser to the police said there have been no arrests.