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...opposition headquarters. The Commercial Farmers? Union was considering a legal challenge to a new presidential decree evicting more than 4,000 white farmers from their land. INDONESIA Mysterious Death The unexplained murder of separatist leader Theys Eluay sparked unrest in the province of Papua, formerly known as Irian Jaya, as suspicion grew of involvement by the Indonesian military. The chairman of the Papuan Presidium Council was found dead in his crashed car after being kidnapped on his way home. Eluay had recently rejected an Indonesian offer to grant the province a degree of autonomy though not full independence. CHINA AIDS...
...Ihab Khazaal, an Iraqi physician caught by Indonesian police a year ago aboard a leaky boat off Irian Jaya, has come to Jakarta to help the traumatized survivors. "I would never think of going aboard a boat again," says Ihab, who has been granted refugee status by the U.N. and is now waiting for an offer of asylum. In the grimy Jakarta hotel that houses last week's survivors, men still in torn, dirty clothes stand alone or in small groups, staring dazedly at the ground or weeping quietly. Speaking on the hotel's single phone, a woman is rocking...
...island of Java, which is about the size of California, with a population of 100 million Muslims. Stretching east is an archipelago with hundreds of small to medium-sized islands, islands with names like Sumba, Sumbawa, Lombok, Flores, Komodo, the legendary Spice Islands, Timor, and the island of Irian Jaya (New Guinea). These areas have mixed populations of Muslims, Christians, and animists. Virtually every inhabited island in Indonesia has its own language and unique history...
There were smaller but no less precious miracles. Nishikant Kapatker, a city planner for the Port Authority, went in at 8:30 a.m., a half-hour early because he and his wife Jaya, who worked in the nearby American Express Building, expected to go on vacation that evening. Thrown from his chair by the impact of Flight 11, he quickly made his way downstairs, watching 20 or 30 fire fighters climbing up, huffing and puffing toward death...
...wife. Both the building where she worked and the one where they live had been evacuated. It was almost 11 a.m. when he finally saw her. "She was sitting on a bench all alone, her head down," he says. She was praying and meditating. Nishikant put his hand on Jaya's shoulder. "And she cried like a baby for a long time." A miracle is worth at least that many tears. --By John Cloud. With reporting by Unmesh Kher and Desa Philadelphia...