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Navigated a hopeful better future in perilous waters from hell-sent dictator Jean-Bertrand Aristide's ferocious dictatorship and abject poverty . July 7, 2003

                                                    
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Some of 464 Haitian refugees waiting in line to be processed by Haitian authorities after being repatriated to the Haitian Coast Guard base Amiral Killick in Carrefour, Haiti, by the US Coast Guard cutter Tampa on Saturday, July 5, 2003. The refugees, among them 105 women, were intercepted on two boats the US Coast Guard said were overloaded and unsafe. Many refugees vowed to try to reach the US or Bahamas again next week. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                                                                        
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A Haitian refugee is helped from a Haitian Coast Guard launch onto the wharf of the Haitian Coast Guard base Amiral Killick in Carrefour, Haiti, after the launch brought her from the US Coast Gaurd Cutter Tampa on Saturday, July 5, 2003. A total of 464 refugees, among them 105 women, were intercepted by the Tampa on two boats the US Coast Guard said were overloaded and unsafe. Many refugees vowed to try to reach the US or Bahamas again next week. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel
                                              

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Haitian refugee Yvonna Eugene, 17, just repatriated by the US Coast Guard Cutter Tampa to the Haitian Coast Guard base Amiral Killick in Carrefour, Haiti, holds an American flag as she waits for the US$7 handout Haitian authorities give refugees, usually not enough to pay for busfare home, on Saturday, July 5, 2003. Smiling, Eugene said, 'I will keep trying until I make it' to the US. She said she brought the flag so she could celebrate US Indepdence Day if she made it to shore. A total of 464 refugees, among them 105 women, were intercepted by the Tampa on two boats the US Coast Guard said were overloaded and unsafe. Many refugees vowed to try to reach the US or Bahamas again next week. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                                                                            
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Haitian refugees, just repatriated by the US Coast Guard Cutter Tampa to the Haitian Coast Guard base Amiral Killick in Carrefour, Haiti, waiting for the US$7 handout Haitian authorities give refugees, usually not enough to pay for busfare home, on Saturday, July 5, 2003. A total of 464 refugees, among them 105 women, were intercepted by the Tampa on two boats the US Coast Guard said were overloaded and unsafe. Many refugees vowed to try to reach the US or Bahamas again next week. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                                                                     
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Haitian refugees standing in line waiting for the the US$7 handout Haitian authorities give refugees, usually not enough to pay for busfare home, on the wharf of the Haitian Coast Guard base Amiral Killick in Carrefour, Haiti, after being repatriated by the US Coast Guard Cutter Tampa, on Saturday, July 5, 2003. A total of 464 refugees, among them 105 women, were intercepted by the Tampa on two boats the US Coast Guard said were overloaded and unsafe. Many refugees vowed to try to reach the US or Bahamas again next week. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                                         
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Haitian refugee Cynthia Pierre, 38 , just repatriated by the US Coast Guard Cutter Tampa to the Haitian Coast Guard base Amiral Killick in Carrefour, Haiti, crying as she waits for the US$7 handout Haitian authorities give refugees, which is usually not enough to pay for busfare home, on Saturday, July 5, 2003. A total of 464 refugees, among them 105 women, were intercepted by the Tampa on two boats the US Coast Guard said were overloaded and unsafe. Many refugees vowed to try to reach the US or Bahamas again next week. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                                        
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Some of 464 Haitian refugees on board a Haitian Coast Guard launch carrying them from the US Coast Guard cutter Tampa to the the Haitian base Amiral Killick in Carrefour, Haiti, by the on Saturday, July 5, 2003. The refugees, among them 105 women, were intercepted by the Tampa on two boats the US Coast Guard said were overloaded and unsafe. Many refugees vowed to try to reach the US or Bahamas again next week. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                        
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Haitian refugee 'Ti Chou' Gustave, 40, widow and mother of five children, wearing a towel because her shirt was lost, stands on the wharf of the Haitian Coast Guard base Amiral Killick in Carrefour, Haiti, after she was repatried from the US Coast Gaurd Cutter Tampa on Saturday, July 5, 2003. A total of 464 refugees, among them 105 women, were intercepted by the Tampa on two boats the US Coast Guard said were overloaded and unsafe. Many refugees vowed to try to reach the US or Bahamas again next week. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                                      

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More than 450 would-be Haitian immigrants were returned to their homeland after being intercepted at sea by US authorities.(AFP/File/Thony Belizaire)
                                                              

Life savers for Haiti - July 7, 2003

                                                         

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Sun-Sentinel/Taimy Alvarez, July 5, 2003

                        
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