The children became stranded after the Administration returned Haitians who had been detained at the base to Port-au-Prince.

The Administration plans to start these processing centers around June 13, but meanwhile it is continuing to return Haitians seeking to enter the United States.

The decision to return Haitians without giving them immigration hearings at Guantanamo has been bitterly denounced by human rights organizations.

A23 Washington's policy of returning Haitians is drawing anger.

A mile away, at this city's grimy port, Coast Guard cutters are returning Haitians who for weeks have been fleeing by the thousands.

Now it is this country that inflicts even greater cruelty - directly returning endangered Haitians into the hands of a ruthless dictatorship.

Before last month's coup, the Coast Guard routinely returned Haitians they intercepted sailing for the United States.

United States officials feared this would embarrass Mr. Clinton, who is forcibly returning Haitians fleeing the island in small boats.

But United States Embassy officials advanced the Red Cross enough money to hand $20 to returning Haitians.

The State Department officials said that the first of seven Coast Guard cutters returning Haitians would land in Port-au-Prince today.