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...much as one third of the population is estimated to have been killed in the Indonesian army?s campaign to forcibly integrate East Timor. International pressure has forced Indonesia to agree to allow the referendum and to abide by its results, but members of the military began organizing the anti-independence militia to intimidate voters soon after the poll was announced. "It?s impossible to tell whether the Indonesian government is being disingenuous with the West about its intentions or whether they?re simply unable to control the military in East Timor," says Calabresi. "But violence is expected to intensify...
...airline and its subcontractors in Miami Wednesday, after exposing a scheme in which drugs were concealed in the carts loaded in Colombia and then removed on arrival in the U.S. An undercover sting operation had also enticed the suspects into smuggling weapons and explosives aboard planes. Agents began investigating the smuggling ring after in-flight coffee, which an American pilot had complained was too weak, turned out to have been accidentally laced with heroin...
DIED. HAROLD HENRY ("Pee Wee") REESE, 81, Hall of Fame baseball shortstop and captain of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, when Jackie Robinson joined the team and began the historic racial integration of the sport. Reese's very public camaraderie with Robinson was crucial in dissipating the ugliness that greeted the rookie. Reese led the Dodgers to seven National League pennants and, in 1955, to Brooklyn's only world championship. He retired in 1958, after a year in the Dodgers' new home, Los Angeles...
...alongside those sent by such old enemies as Greece and Russia, and even where the Turkish state?s own response had been inadequate, local communities rose to the challenge. "There?s still a strong sense of community in Turkey," says Finkel. "It was neighbors, not civil defense units, who began digging through the rubble, many with their bare hands." That sense of community may be essential to managing the fallout from the disaster, and to the economic reconstruction that will follow. Whatever lessons are learned in managing the present disaster may well be tested again some time in the future...
...Benex Worldwide, to reputed Russian mobster/arms dealer Semion Mogilevitch. All this makes the Bank of New York look either complicit or stupid - and the IMF look just plain stupid, at least in the eyes of its congressional critics, who have been carping about profligate lending since the Asian crisis began. But TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl points out that the IMF?s Russian loans "are just as much political decisions as financial or economic ones - an unstable Russia is deemed too dangerous to abandon, and the loans help keep up ties with Washington." And just think ?- some of that...