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Show The Salt LakeTribune NATION/WORLD _ Sunday,|October 31,1999 Indonesian Troops Leave E. Timor Hundreds Feared Dead In Cyclone’s 2nd Day Jgnominiouspullout reprisals ends 24-year attempt Over a vastly larger and bettarequipped army. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Timor fit other patterns as well, and onesthat ai becoming omi- BALESHWAR, India Acy clone battered a broad swath of to subduetinyterritory TIIE ASSOCIATED PRESS DILI, East Timor — With Indo- nesian troops clustered forlornly at the rail, a gray troop-transport ship slowly pulled away from the harbor early today, quietly ending 24-year occupation of this er Portuguese colony that left nds dead. Their departure from East ‘The tumultuous events in East nously familiar: anoutbreak of internecine hatred, a rampage by paramilitaries apparentlyabetted onits eastern fringe. it was a humiliating comedown for a military force that once numbered more than 40,000 and whose word oncewaslaw. For the past week, as their garrison dwindled to the last few hundred, Indonesian troops looked glumly from behind their sandbag fortifications, protected by peacekeepers andjeered bylo cals, unable to leave their compoundsevento saya final farewell to their military dead. The saga of Indonesia in East ‘Timor reads in somewayslike a familiarscript: a lightly equipped rebel band — onethatlives close to the ground, knows theterrain and commands the unflinching loyalty of a rural populace even as they bear the brunt of horrific eastern India for a second day Saturday, knocking out power and telephone lines and flattening by a regular army, 4 massive dis- placement ofcivilians. Suddenly another obscure conflict becamea crisis requiring urgent interna tionalmilitaryintervention. Here, as elsewhere, the stated mission was to rescue civilians caught up in the violence, but the ken premise waspotentially ive: the international com- Timor marksthe endof a long and fruitless struggle by the world’s most populous Muslim nation to subdue a small, stubbornly separatist Roman Catholic province prevails in the end unity was effectively coming to the aid of a separatist movement in a sovereign nation. In this case, Indonesia volun. tarily relinquished its claim to the Richard Vogel/The Associated Press East Timorese refugees havestartedto retum to the ravaged ‘erritory from W.Timorafter the arrival of International peacekeepers. territory, agreeing to accept the resultsof its 2-month-old independence referendum. The peacekeepers, the United Nationstran. sition teamthat is a government in all but name, even the rebel armythatis nowin the process of transforming itself into a political movement have been at pains to praise the Indonesians for a rela- tively painlessfinal pullout. That was plainly underscored by the sendoff given top Indone- sian military menon Saturday, as airport for the farewell to Indone- sianofficials, so did the longtime leaderof the rebel army that had spentyearslockedin bloodybattle with them The guerrilla chief, Jose Alexandre “Xanana” Gusmao,told reporters that the Indonesian occupation had been “a mistake between twocountries.” “Nowwehavetolookto thefuture,”hesaid. The years of colonialism and thelast few troops were preparing to leave East Timor by ship and plane. occupation haveleft a welter of conflicting loyalties in East Notonlythe acting headofthe U.N. team, Ian Martin, and the even on such basic questions as peacekeepers’ commander, Maj. Gen.Peter Cosgrove, came to the Timor. Thereis little consensus what language should be dominant Portuguese, English, Ba- hasa Indonesian or thetribal tongue Tetum or what currency should be adopted. Even so, the territory has strengths tofall back on. Despite the spreeof destruction, it still has a workingport and airport, passable roads in many areas, and water and telecommunication sys- tems that can probably be re“We d fairly quickly. haveto learnto stop being a colonial people, to stop looking into other people’s eyes and trying to see whatit is that they want from us,” said Mario Carrascalao, a formerEast Timor governorand now aleaderof the resistance umbrelia movement.“Wehaveto decide whatit is that we wantfor ourselves.” J.C. Watts, R-Okla., chairman of the House Republican Conference, said in a statement responding to Clinton. cals released into the environmentso the public can learn more The new chemical rules from the Environmental Protection about companies’ potential to pol- Agency will apply to companies lute, President Clinton said based on the amount of Saturday. Thetighterrules, effective Jan. 1, apply to 27 substancesand, for “persistent bioaccumulative tox ics” theyuse. Those are chemicals that do not break down easily and build up in the environment to the pointthat they are passed through thefirst time, cover the industrial byproduct dioxin. Clinton, in his weekly radio address, also announced two other quisitions: 14,000 acres in a California desert national park and a 95,000-acre ranch in New Mexico where one of the world’s largest herds ofelk roamsfree. Clinton also repeated a threat to veto the Interior Department spending bill if the Republicancontrolled Congress does not remove provisionson logging in national forests, oil production and toxic-waste mining rules on federal lands. The president also wants more moneyfor voluntary community riverrestorations. The GOPbelieves the bill is friendly to the environment while protecting Social Security, Rep. pounds a year, or, for some espe- cially dangerous chemicals, 10 poundsa year. Fordioxin, companies using as little as one-tenth of a gram must announce releases. Dioxin is state capital, for rescue opera lone packed 155-mph is as it crossed thecoastat the area wasstill inaccessible andcut off from communication. “We are treating it as a national calamity,” Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said. He said the government plannedassis tance equaling $23 million to the region. As many as 1.5 million people havebeen displacedoraffected by the storm. Just two weeks ago another cyclone battered Orissa, killing 100 people and injuring \ “Hundreds must have perished,” Press Trust of India news agency quoted Orissa state Chief Minister Giridhar Gamamg as saying. Rescue operations were lief work, Press quotedofficia Trust of India saving. On Fri day, 2,000 army soldiers were flown to Bhubaneswar, Orissa’s i id. port of Paradwipearly F cording to R.R. Kelkar, director general of the Indian Meteorolog ical Department. Paradwip’s por was dam. aged considerably, lar News TV reported. By Saturday, the storm had weakenedas it slowly moved in. land. The cyclone was 20 miles northeast of Bhubaneswarearly Saturday and moving in a north westerly direction with winds dropping to about 36-42 mph Kelkarsaid. The cyclone uprooted trees knocked downutility poles and flooded large parts of the coast Waves reached13-15 feet high Authorities in Calcutta, the thwarted as the storm pounded capital of West Bengal, said 200 the area for a second day, dumping rain from eastern India to Bangladesh and parts of and may have drowned. Myanmar. Air force helicopters and ground troops, loaded with food packets, waited for a break, The highway leading south with fallen eucalyptus trees and swamped with water. Trucks lined the roadside. fishers had not returned home More than a dozen cyclones form every year in the Bay of Bengal, but this one had grown since it originated Oct. 25 in the middleofthe bay. India recorded cyclonesof sim- ilar intensity in 1990, 1989 and in 1977, he said. The cyclone in 1977 killed an estimated 10,000 people in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh. produced by the burningofwaste, especially plastics and chiorine- based chemicals. 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