Word: missions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slipping further into anarchy. Australia, Indonesia's neighbor and one of the nations most actively pushing for a peacekeeping force, has said it can send 2,500 troops into East Timor. Several other Pacific countries, including Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, also have volunteered for the peacekeeping mission...
...United States should do its part too. President Clinton's national security advisor, Sandy Berger, said yesterday that the U.S. would lend logistical support, communications and intelligence for the peacekeeping mission, but would leave the leadership on the ground to Australia. This is an appropriate role for the U.S. to play...
...prodding Indonesia along the road to peace in East Timor. Pressure from the U.S., Indonesia's second-largest trading partner after Japan, helped convince Habibie to agree to a referendum in the first place and to permit peacekeepers. It may again prove invaluable as the specifics of the UN mission are worked...
Whatever the details of the peacekeeping mission, it must come quickly. By all accounts, the violence in East Timor is intensifying. Australia said yesterday its troops could be on the ground in three days. They can't land a day too soon...
...little early for sighs of relief over the fate of East Timor. Indonesian foreign minister Ali Alatas met with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan in New York Monday to negotiate the terms of a peacekeeping mission to East Timor. But although President B. J. Habibie caved in under mounting international pressure Sunday and accepted the principle of a peacekeeping mission, perils aplenty await both the Timorese and their prospective liberators. For one thing, nobody knows quite who is in charge in Jakarta these days. That the president's announcement was immediately endorsed by the all-powerful military is certainly encouraging...