Mass Abduction of U.S. Missionaries Startles Even Kidnap-Weary Haiti

Children on their way to school, street vendors selling their wares, priests mid-sermon -- few Haitians, rich or poor, are safe from the gangs of kidnappers that stalk their country with near impunity. But the abduction this weekend of 17 people associated with an American missionary group as they visited an orphanage shocked officials for its brazenness.