In Haiti, a Council of Sages has formed to put together a transitional government to pick a replacement to Aristide’s prime minister Yvon Neptune. On Monday Boniface Alexandre was officially installed as the country’s interim president. But ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide maintained yesterday that he was still president. Lawyers representing Aristide are planning to serve Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell with papers today asking that the US prosecute the people involved in what they call the kidnapping of Aristide and his wife Mildred, who is a US citizen. Meanwhile In Washington, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher dismissed Aristide’s charge that he was kidnapped or his claim to the presidency. Boucher said “If Mr. Aristide really wants to serve his country, he really has to, we think, let his nation get on with the future and not try to stir up the past again.”