Grijalva originally urged boycotts of Arizona but said the judge's recent ruling demanded a refocus.
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said yesterday the United States would not accept Haiti's president being ousted by the "thugs" and "murderers" rampaging through the streets of the impoverished nation.
But he steered away from recommending that Washington answer an appeal from President Jean-Bertrand Aristide for intervention to end an 11-day-old uprising that has left at least 56 persons dead.
The appeal was renewed yesterday in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, by Mr. Aristide's prime minister, Yvon Neptune, who warned of an impending coup and appealed for international help.
"We are witnessing the coup d'etat machine in motion," Mr. Neptune said, urging the international community "to show it really wants peace and stability."
Both Haitian leaders stopped short of asking for military intervention. Mr. Aristide on Monday asked for "technical assistance."
"We cannot buy into a proposition that an elected president can be forced from office by thugs," Mr. Powell told reporters.
Another State Department official, when asked whether the United States would allow the rebels to bring down Mr. Aristide's government, said simply: "No."
Mr. Powell said Washington was working with the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the Caribbean Community and France to try to open a dialogue between the armed opposition groups and Mr. Aristide.
"There is frankly no enthusiasm right now for sending in military or police forces to put down the violence that we are seeing," he said.
By Kara Rowland - The Washington Times
Obama was excoriated for continuing the Bush administration's strictest national security policies, including indefinite detention, military commissions and a "targeted kill" program that authorizes the government to take out suspected terrorists anywhere. Published 8:56 p.m. July 29, 2010
By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times
The House ethics committee officially lodged charges against Rep. Charles B. Rangel, including that he used his office to raise $8 million for a college public policy center named after him and didn't file taxes while he was Congress' chief tax writer. Published 8:56 p.m. July 29, 2010
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