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NETWORK EVENT THEATER* U.N. personnel pull o of East Timor missio Militias loot compound following evacuatk DILI, Indonesia (AP) — Indone sian soldiers looted the abandoned U.N. mission in East Timor yester day, just hours after 110 U.N. per sonnel and 1,300 East Timorese were evacuated and flown to safe ty to end a 10-day siege. Office equipment and comput ers were carted away and vehicles were trashed by the soldiers — “the very people we asked to secure the compound when U.N. staff moved to the Australian consulate,” U.N. spokesperson Fred Eckhard said in New York. There were reports yesterday that the compound was also torched, but Eckhard said he was told that it was not the com pound but a small house nearby that had been burned. The remaining U.N. staff mem bers, holed up in the Australian consulate, reported that a black plume of smoke was rising from the direction of the compound in the provincial capital of Dili, Fer nando del Mundo, spokesperson for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Jakarta, said. The staff feared their headquar ters had been set ablaze by pro-In donesia militiamen, he said. The dozen U.N. personnel who stayed behind in Dili were to prepare the way for an international peace keeping force, the makeup of which was being negotiated by Indonesian and U.N. officials yesterday. But time appeared to be running out, with more than 200,000 East Timorese risking starvation be- RVING (A 1 [n Lett will. for his (ise policy. >tt, 30, bx« 4 and m. i on Sun. TheNFL’s r cause they are cut off frorl supplies and drinking water, agency said yesterday. About 7,000 people havfbrmer Pro Bo- killed and 100,000 have ihome gam t forcibly relocated to West!Brviolations since anti independenceB* We re dis« and Indonesian soldiers t™ tive time vv/ rampage of violence follow'*[terry Jones province's vote Aug. JOtoB^him now away from Indonesia, theiBp ommiss ' t 1 based Food and AgricultureB sus P enc l ec * nization said. ■siibstance- While it is impossible tocoBCurrently l the number kilted in thepastBraises, Let t previous estimates have rBLett s abse i from 600 to 7,000. Bakdown 11 TWo students were woumlBigl 11 points plastic bullets after the crowcr aged two police cars andsetj an army vehicle. Clinton releases photograp for environmental researc IWACO (AP |ing to avoii fans this 1 cause he laid of be Inted ab QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand (AP) — President Clinton, stressing a need to protect the world’s envi ronment, is releasing previously classified satellite images of Antarc tica to help scientists chart global cli mate change. The images include two sets of detailed pictures from the early 1970s and 1980s, and are intended to give scientists a baseline for en vironmental studies and a new source of information about the area’s land, water and glaciers. On the final day of a five-day visit to New Zealand, the president was announcing his action today dur ing a visit to Christ church, the jumping-off point for American expeditions to Antarctica. He was being in troduced by Sir Edmund Hillary. CUNTON Hillary was the first person to make a land ing of Antarctica in 1958. Hillary and sherpafe Norgay were the first men to reach the sum: Mount Everest in 1953. On the first leg of his trip, the president spot days in Auckland for meetings with Asian leade the annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic eration forum. He took a day off yesterday in(. stown to play golf before a state visit with Prime! ter Jenny Shipley. Some members of Clinton's® the free time for bungee jumping and jet boat me Before Clinton’s arrival, Shipley was precc;. with a state visit by Chinese President Jiangl;: Clinton was the first president to visit NevL since 1966. The United States and New Zealada warm ties despite a breach caused by tb* ment's decision in the mid 1980s to bar nudH® and powered warships from New Zealand?. klor’s twe bond loss< llnstead, so; said hi tin Bears something wbrse icule — ] “You ge soled,” the |ou hear ’ but that’s r Want to hec I People a 'ever to fee 'Saturday' )JNLV. Wv £ Barak to continue nuclear poll? play, Bay! and the \ yard-line But wt 'ucktai :k, first JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Ehud Barak will not con sider dismantling Israel’s nuclear weapons as long as regional hostil ities persist and will not permit an international in spection of the Di- mona nuclear re actor, an Israeli newspaper reported yesterday. The daily Haaretz published ex cerpts from a letter by the head of Is rael’s Atomic Energy Commission, Gideon Frank, saying that “progress in the area of arms control and dis armament can come about only BARAK through political accommodation and reconciliation” in the region. The Aug. 9 letter was ad dressed to the International Atom ic Energy Agency. Barak’s aides were not immedi ately available for comment. Israel has never publicly ac knowledged possessing nuclear weapons, saying only that it would not be the first to introduce them in the Middle East. In recent years, the secrecy has been lifted somewhat. In 1996, then- Prime Minister Shimon Peres said Is rael began pursuing a nuclear capa bility in the 1950s to prevent more wars. Western intelligence reports said the country is the only nuclear power in the Mideast and hasP I 1 nificant stockpile. |vCll I The nuclear issue, whicT raised in July meetings bei Barak and President Clinta mains a sore point amid othi warming relations between p the tear pe of the se sing the s\ :ed him to 17 victor ayette. tf Williams’ and the United States. 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