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...risky enough, President Abdurrahman Wahid chose to do it by phone while on a two-week trip to Europe. The bad news for Wahid is that General Wiranto, disgraced by a government report this week that held him responsible for some of last year's violence in East Timor, doesn't appear to be going anywhere: He even attended a cabinet meeting Wednesday, in defiance of the President's orders. Although Wiranto had been removed from command of the armed forces and promoted to security minister following Wahid's election last summer, the general who orchestrated the former dictator Suharto...
...contribute policemen. "Getting enough of them is always a problem," says a senior State Department official. For example, it has been seven months since the Kosovo war ended, but the U.N. has only about 2,000 of the 4,700 policemen it needs there. The fighting in East Timor ended four months ago, but only 330 of the 1,640 cops requested by the U.N. have shown up. Albright wants nations to promise police officers ahead of time. They would then be on call to hit the beat immediately...
...also a colleague of the Dutch journalist killed in East Timor last fall...
Ogata has been involved with refugees most recently in East Timor, as well as Kosovo, Rwanda and other hotspots around the world...
...panel also includes retired Marine Lt. Gen. Bernard E. Timor, an associate at the Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government...