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DILI, East Timor (AP) — An international
peace force assigned to bring order to East Tim
or’s murderous chaos landed without resistance
yesterday, effectively marking the end of In
donesia’s control of the region after 24 turbu
lent years.
Wave after wave of Australian transport
planes airlifted more than 1,000 soldiers and
tons of ammunition, explosives, land mines and
supplies to this territory north of Australia. Ar
mored personnel carriers rolled out of Hercules
transport planes and clattered down the rub
bish-strewn streets of East Timor’s capital, Dili.
Within hours, the heavily armed combat
troops from Australia, New Zealand and Britain
were in control of Dili’s airport and harbor.
But the real test for the 7,500-member inter
national force will come when it spreads into re
mote areas to protect residents from the fury of
the pro-Indonesian militias that have fought to
keep East Timor from becoming independent.
It was unclear whether the militias would fade
away or transform themselves into guerrillas,
sniping and harassing the unwanted foreigners.
The troops arrived in a city abandoned by its
people and left in smoking ruins, with no food,
no electricity, no clean water and thousands of
desperate refugees trying to get out.
As the peacekeeping troops moved through
town, they could see black smoke from fresh
fires billowing over the city and, in the evening,
the glow of flames in the countryside.
“There is a lot of destruction,” Australian
Maj. Chip Henriss-Andersen said.
Some residents in tattered clothes emerged
into the streets to gawk, shake hands with the
troops and smile.
“A lot of people were saying ‘Hello Mister,’
probably their only English," Henriss-Ander
sen, a naturalized Australian born in Cleveland,
Ohio, said. “I think pretty soon we'll have them
saying ‘G’day.’”
The airlift was to continue through the night,
and by daybreak today operation commanders
said they hoped to have 2,300 troops in the half
island territory.
“It’s been quite an encouraging day, ” Dun
can Lewis, the Australian military spokesper
son in Canberra, said. “Everything's gone
very smoothly.”
Still, there was near-pandemonium on the
wharf in Dili as the sun set yesterday, with hun
dreds of people trying to clamber aboard a pas
senger ferry and navy supply ship.
The arrival of the force just five days after
it was authorized by the U.N. Security Coun
cil spelled the beginning of the end of In
donesian rule in East Timor, where four-fifths
of the people voted for independence in an
Aug. 30 referendum.
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erful earthquake struck Taiwan be
fore dawn Tliesday, wrecking a 12-
story hotel in Taipei, damaging
buildings in the countryside and
awakening millions. State radio
said it was the island’s strongest
quake in decades.
The U.S. Geological Survey Na
tional Earthquake Information
Center said the quake had a pre
liminary magnitude of 7.6 and was
centered 90 miles south-southwest
of Taipei. The USGS issued tsuna
mi warnings.
The quake wrecked the 78-
room Sungshan Hotel in Taipei,
collapsing the bottom three sto
ries and setting the badly dam
aged top listing to one side. Offi
cials said 25 people were sent to
hospitals from the hotel.
Elsewhere on the island, more
than a dozen other people were re
ported injured. There were no im
mediate reports of deaths.
Kevin Gu, a graduate student
who lives near the Sungshan Ho
tel, said: “I heard a loud sound.
Hong! Dong! I ran down here and
the emergency vehicles and ambu
lances were arriving.”
The Broadcasting Corp. of Chi
na reported a row of houses col
lapsed in Chang Hua county in
central Taiwan, injuring at least
three people. Ten others were be
lieved trapped in the wreckage, the
state radio said.
The quake, which occurred at
about 1:45 a.m. — while most of
Taiwan’s 22 million people were
sleeping — knocked out electric
service throughout the northern
part of the island. State radio said
the initial quake was followed by
six aftershocks.
After the temblor, people made
their way into the streets from
damaged buildings, some wearing
only underwear, some in night
clothes. Some appeared dazed, but
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others quickly recovered from the
sudden awakening. A few waved
from damaged buildings.
Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne,
who is visiting Taipei as part of a
two-week Asian trade mission,
said he was sleeping in a top-floor
room in the 25-story Grant Hyatt
Regency in Taipei when the earth
quake hit.
“We’ve been through quite an
experience,” Kempthorne said by
telephone later from the street out
side the hotel. “I think many of us
thought we might be done for.”
Kempthorne said the quake be
gan as a gentle swaying, “and
then it increased in intensity un
til you were virtually thrown from
the bed.”
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan
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His message was echoed by
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who applauded the Security
Council’s relatively swift approval
of a force to restore peace to East
Timor but decried its inaction in
African conflicts, particularly in
Angola and Congo.
“Why does human suffering in
some part of the world fuel
greater indignation than when it
takes place elsewhere?” Brazilian
Foreign Minister Luiz Felipe Lam-
preia asked in his opening re
marks. “The plights of Angola
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examples of what amounts to a
clear pattern of one-sightedness
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pur yesterday — the holiest day of
the year for Jews.
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delay the start of the assembly
session, but the 188-member
General Assembly refused to
change the date.
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