Word: indonesians
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Once again, Khmer Rouge forces seized and held United Nations peacekeeping troops. Initially 21, mostly Indonesian paratroopers, were held for two days in a hamlet 100 miles north of Phnom Penh by about 70 heavily armed guerrillas, who refuse to cooperate with the U.N. peace plan; 46 U.N. troops negotiating to free them were also briefly detained before all were released. In a separate incident, the Khmer Rouge were holding nine others from the U.N. under a threat of death at week's end. The episodes cast doubts on both the U.N.'s credibility and Cambodia's plans for elections...
...interested Indonesian religious rites, don't go to Jakarta. Try Eliot House instead...
...invasion, and the Ford administration's tacit approval, violated the terms of a 1958 U.S.-Indonesian accord which stated that U.S. arms could not be used for external agression. After the annexation of East Timor, Kissinger said that "we understand Indonesia's position...
...Bush administration should not ignore the illegal occupation of East Timor just because it is not as rich as Kuwait. East Timor is as deserving of self-determination as the Arab sheikdom or the former republics of the former Soviet empire. Its oil resources, so coveted by the Indonesian and Australian governments, would guarantee it economic stability. There are dozens of nations of smaller size...
Dinger said the State Department was encouragedby the Indonesian government's preliminary reportabout the November massacre, which "answeredseveral difficult key questions...