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Jakarta, Indonesia
Troops kill protesters in clash
Troops in East Timor fired yesterday on independence demonstrators wielding sticks, stones and knives, killing dozens of people testing Indonesia's 13-year rule, officials said.
But a military statement said only several people died after troops fired on attacking
The exact number of casualties was not immediately known, but an Indonesian legal aid group said 115 people were killed in the East Timor capital of Dili. An Indonesian official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said about 40 people were slain.
"The incident could not be avoided," said the statement. A government report later said the situation was calm in the former Portuguese colony, annexed by Indonesia in 1976.
Langley, Va.
Gates sworn in as CIA director
Robert Gates was sworn in yesterday as director of the CIA, embarking on an ambitious plan to redefine the mission of U.S. intelligence. Gates, 48, became the 15th director of the Central Intelligence Agency after undergoing one of the stormiest Senate confirmation hearings ever for that post. He was confirmed by a 64-31 vote.
Critics have accused Gates of railroading subordinates in earlier years into writing reports that supported the strong anti-Soviet stance of the Reagan administration.
President Bush, in brief remarks at the ceremony, presented Gates with a mandate to quickly move the intelligence community ahead of the complex problems of the 21st Century."
Damascus, Syria
Arabs might balk at U.S. talks
Syria and some Palestinians expressed reluctance yesterday about holding the next round of Mideast peace talks in the United States, which have been largely compromise site between Arabas and Israelis.
A senior Syrian official said his country was reluctant to meet in the United States because Washington still regards Syria as a sponsor of terrorism, and because Palestine Liberation Organization members are denied U.S. visas. The official讲话 on condition of anonymity.
Israeli officials said the U.S. will have to set up the next round of talks because the Arabs have rebuffed Israeli offers to work out a deal.
From The Associated Press
Strikes at South African mines lead to violence; clashes kill 75
35,000 walk off jobs at huge platinum mine
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A strike by at least 35,000 miners shut down the world's second-largest platinum producer yesterday — the second large mine affected this week by worker disturbances.
The Associated Press
Most of Impala Platinum Ltd. workers walked off the job Monday at the company's four mines in protest of the dismissal of about 220 employees for taking part in a protest.
At the President Steyn Gold mine south of Johannesburg production was sharply curtailed after weekend clashes between armed miners, including six white bloodied yesterday from injuries.
The unrest reflects the growing importance of economic issues in black protests against white-majority government.
The mines have been particularly hard hit by a combination of political violence and falling prices for many minerals.
The strike at Impala in the Bopthatsawna Black homeland was called to protest the recent firing of employees who took part in a sit-in opposing worker violence, according to the National Union of Mineworkers.
Workers' hostels at mines have been frequent flash points of Black factional violence. The cramped, usually diapidated, single-sex dormitories bring Blacks from different tribes and of different political persuasions into close contact.
The company said 35,000 of its 42,000 black workers were on strike, but the union estimated a number of strikes at 40,000.
The fighting has left at least 75 Blacks dead and 177 injured at the mine, one of the world's largest.
Estonia to be first Baltic nation to have diplomatic ties to NATO
The Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Estonia will become the first of the newly independent Baltic nations to establish diplomatic contacts with the NATO military alliance, the NATO secretary-general announced yesterday.
Estonia will join the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries in setting up a channel for informal contacts with the alliance, said Secretary-General Manfred Woerner, after Estonia's foreign minister, Lennart Meri, visited NATO headquarters.
"The three Baltic states are very aware of their rights but also about their responsibilities in creating a better Europe for the
future," Meri said after daylong talks at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia,
dominated by the Soviet Union for
more than 50 years, became
independent after the failed coop in
Moscow in August.
Woerner said Meri had accepted the alliances invitation to attend a meeting next month of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, newly formed to include the Soviet Union and eight other East European nations.
President Bush and other NATO leaders agreed at a summit last week in Rome to set up the council as a way of drawing the Eastern Europeans closer with
out granting them full membership.
A first meeting between NATO's and Eastern European foreign ministers will be held Dec. 20 at NATO's headquarters.
Meri said that the three Baltic nations, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, looked to the Western nations for cooperation as they negotiated an agreement with the Soviets for withdrawal of Red Army troops still on their territory.
"It is always better not to have a military vacuum, which can create problems," Meri said. "We are looking just for a restructuring of the European security system in the north of Europe."
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