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The mountainous island of Timor, which is twice the size of New Jersey, lies in the eastern third of the 4,000-mile-long Indonesian archipelago, about 300 miles from northern Australia.
Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, told reporters that he will call on President Clinton to "support the sending of armed UN peacekeeping troops to the former Portuguese territory," even though the Indonesian government has refused to allow international peacekeepers into East Timor for the ballot.
The Washington Post bottom-fronts some refugee accounts of last week's Timor rampage, but stuffs the Moscow terrorism, all in favor of its lead about the latest fiscal gimmick gaining currency among Senate Republicans as a way to continue spending while technically not violating Congress' previously agreed-upon spending caps: declare the coming fiscal year to be made up of 13 months ("instead of the usual 12," explains the Post ever so helpfully).
The United States also helped Suharto to seize power back in 1965-66, sanctioned his occupation of East Timor in 1975, and basically looked the other way at three decades of one-man rule and serious human rights violations.
The Sydney Morning Herald led Monday with a report of "a huge build-up of troops" along the West Timor border, establishing a front line against militia incursions.