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    Page 16 • Monday, September 20, 1999
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U.N. to enter East Timor Bus crash
26 Spaniai
DILI, Indonesia (AP) — Heavi
ly-armed international peacekeep
ers landed in East Timor at dawn
today, clearing the way for a U.N.
approved force charged with
restoring order and helping usher
the Indonesian province toward in
dependence.
A camouflage-green Hercules
C-130 transport plane set down at
Dili airport, the first in a wave of
planes and ships expected by the
end of the day.
About a dozen elite Australian
troops in full combat gear quickly
took up defensive positions.
About two dozen Indonesian
troops greeted the Australians, and
the first minutes of the arrival ap
peared cordial.
Indonesian troops had to chase
a herd of goats off the runway
shortly before the dawn touch
down as sirens wailed to warn sev
eral dozen onlookers.
Supplies and personnel soon
started streaming in at breakneck
speed to bring peace to a territory
devastated by pro-Jakarta militias and
their allies in the Indonesian army.
Soldiers in a second plane that
arrived 30 minutes later unloaded
ammunition, grenades and explo
sives, along with vehicles.
Pallet after pallet was pulled out
onto the runway, as camouflaged
vehicles were driven down ramps
from the backs of the Hercules car
go planes.
Five planes in all had arrived
within the first two hours, bringing
in several dozen soldiers and vital
supplies. Many of the soldiers were
to head to the city’s port area, to
clear the way for combat ships
heading toward East Timor.
Australian, British and New
Zealand soldiers quickly secured
the perimeter of the small airfield.
The soldiers, squinting in the
tropical sun.
wore
helnn
ets
equipped with goggles to 1
keep c
nit
the dust that co
nstantly
swee
•ps
across the capital
city.
Some of the s<
aldiers c
rouch
ed
down, their guns
at the r
eady,
as
they secured the airport. Others
pushed into the tall grass and
palm trees around the airfield, cre
ating an ever-widening circle of
control.
Dili’s airport is the lifeline for
the peacekeeping force, which will
require huge amounts of supplies
and backup personnel.
By this afternoon, 2,500 sol
diers, helicopu
personnel carri
the ground in I
capital, Aus
ter John 1\
and armored
would be on
Dili, East Timor’s
an Defense Minis-
e said from the
peacekeepers'
win, Australia.
Nine warshij
Britain and Ne
sailing toward
troops from m
dozen nations.
taging area in Dar
rom Australia,
Zealand were
>t Timor with
LA MUELA, Spain ■
passenger bus going on
day trip to the coast®
a highway in northeaste
yesterday, killing at lea?
pie and injuring dozenst
cording to authorities.
Rescuers found mor;
dozen bodies under the:!
a crane lifted it morettl
hours after the crash,Jua
Cordoba, spokesperson
gional government of
said.
He said all of the vie
Spaniards, although ■;]
identities were not imna
released.
A stream of dozens
lances rushed to theaccj
and took the 27 injurec
hospitals as they were
out of the bus.
The bus, carrying 51
gers and the driver, was
the route from Madne
town ot Cerona whenirj
off the Nil highway anti
ditch full of water.
The accident occurre:
after 1:30 p.m. closetoth
eastern city of Zaragoza
The cause of theacci
unknown, although poi
not rule out that it wasa
the heavy rains in theptl
NATO, KLA discuss disbanding an
an
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) — NATO and
Kosovo Liberation Army were reported in inte
discussions early today in an effort to reach
agreement on what will become of the former rebel
army after it disbands.
NATO officials insisted the June agreement for the
KLA to demobilize remains in effect.
But they acknowledged unspecified problems pre
vented the two sides from signing an agreement by
the deadline, yesterday at midnight, on transforming
the KLA into a 5,000-member civilian Kosovo Corps.
The KLA wants the new organization to become
the nucleus of a new army of an independent Koso
vo — something NATO has refused.
NATO has insisted the peacekeepers must be the
only armed force in Kosovo. The Russians and the
Serbs — who consider the KLA terrorists responsible
st Serb civilians — opposj
enable the KLA to coni
nal structure underudiiif
ation agreement waste:
morning by peacekeeping a
rkson and the KLA militan:
•ku, but the ceremonv'njsa
? U.N. mission were tot
a Corps this morning,
is to help combat naturaia
n other humanitarian and civt
efighting and rescues,
ear warning to the former i
okesperson Lt. Col. Robin Clifford ally
obiVization agreement. He said Cekra
idnight “because after that the KLA®*
i does its general staff.”
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