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II© cir> 12© ©1®©IL D A' Page 16 •Thursday, September 9, 1999 w ORLD U.N. workers to stay in East Tim. AG KICKOFF THURSDAY • SEPTEMBER 16, 1999 75C WELLS / S 1 LONGNECKS 8-10PM TEXAS HALL OF FAME • COLLEGE NIGHT SPECIAL ADVANCE TICKETS SUGGESTED AT ROTHEKS BOOKSTORES, CAVENDERS, DISC GO ROUND & HALL OF FAME DILI, Indonesia (AP)— The United Nations heeded the pleas of East Timorese refugees yes terday and delayed the evacuation of its mission to the Indonesian province, fearing the with drawal could end in mass bloodshed. More than 2,000 people have crowded into the U.N. compound in Dili, the provincial capital. Many said pro-Indonesian militias would kill them if the U.N. workers left. At U.N. headquarters in New York, Secretary- General Kofi Annan said the pullout of the re maining 206 international officials and 167 East Timorese working for the world body would be delayed 24 hours. He also said he is trying to keep a small U.N. presence in the violence-torn province to protect innocent civilians. The move came after the U.N. workers an nounced plans to flee Dili this morning. Violence in East Timor exploded in the wake of an Aug. 30 U.N.-supervised referendum, in which the East Timorese overwhelmingly voted to become independent from Indonesia. Since then, Indonesian troops and their proxies have been looting houses, shooting people and driving others out in an apparent effort to punish the pop ulace and subvert independence. > we c ?pen “It will be a holocaust here. They will simply kill all of us as soon as [U.N. workers] leave.' mnot develop our country,"si. ence activist who reached the __ pound yesterday. “This is a good-bye" The U.N. compound has beensu ian troops, who have helper. ;cess to it. Bursts of mach > heard outside the comp ill be the holocaust here’ In nild “ave, ound nribu — Pro-independence student leader Witnesses who ventured into the streets ) terday said Indonesian soldiers were "looi everything in sight," carrying furniture oui abandoned houses and loading it onto trucks “They are trying to kill all the educated pec hd a prc who dc ion." Th minent student leader dined to be identify ey will simply killalloli streamed out of East Tin en continued to ter ifficials estimated that upj quarter of the territory’s in the past several days, sum-controlled West Tin ghter in adjacent East’ t-growing refugee can IKK) people were takin Explosi kills tw in Koso )or BUDRICA, (AP) — Breaking mi calm in Kosovo's Aweria shells rained downomi villages, killing twopei wounding four, U.S. pen said yesterday. “Out of nowhere tf® bang,” Milica Cvetkovk: scribing the shell thathir shattering glass and sc choking clouds of dust “We didn’t know who or where it was comingir daughter, Danjela, said ran out into the yard.” For 20 minutes, they*: pounded their village: ; Kosovo Thesday evening the legs off an elderly wor mg water in her yard, along with a male village U.S. troops serving in i led Kosovo peacekeeping i* the attack <i/u/ one earlier After a s partmen BY I A sev day bet\ dal Brya mental-1 peacefu into cus l Sgt. E lice Dep tion oftic nearby Serbv\Wa^o\^at\\\^ Jterday n after relatively hec^vmci mortar fire diminished tom in the ethnically mixed easi of the province under to With less than two wee the Sept. 19 deadline forth tarization of the rebel ation Army (KLA), intemati cials fear such attempts to the peace will increase. Sot KLA figures ave thou I mently opposed to demilii; despite a plan to allow ther tion to maintain as a reforo ly armed civil emergencycc| The attack came onedii lleveille Russian soldiers patrolli ?llow mas same area shot and kilid Cain Par Serbs after they disregards' From 1 to stop beating two wounh&M Uni\ nians and instead openswnber of the peacekeepers. n June 25 ld| age. Th aorrow so ^ pponunit Sierra Lee, N ? or, served awaits reterJ ^ i ,y the Cor| of rebel hf“ FREETOWN, Sierra Leo — He has been freed pardoned and promoted that makes him theequivat vice president. ■ He has traveled to at half-dozen countries, i presidents and attended a al summit. Again and again, f promised peace. But Foday Sankoh, th of Sierra Leone’s feared' tionary United Front reft yet to come home. A peace treaty signed July ended eight years war in exchange fora sharing government that ed the rebels. Sankoh promised torett to Sierra Leone. Two mono he is still promising. For weeks, he lived ata' nearby Lome, Togo, wlf peace accords were negoti; signed. From there, he travel number of African count! eluding Algeria for theO: tion of African Unity sunf Libya, where he has longf ties to Moammar Gadhatl Sankoh has said he will: to Sierra Leone once histrif but diplomats and governr ficials worry he may — yd stretch out his absence. Dr. Joel •E Caldwell r 15th arm ‘klatsch,’ the Czech Czech her •Aggies h A&M will Naval Aca •Bullwort Warren Be launching celebrity t politics. The l Check out battalion.t features n