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Article: NOW INDONESIA WANTS TO BE RID OF TROUBLESOME EAST TIMOR.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 18, 1999
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For almost a quarter-century, relations between Indonesia, the world's fourth most-populous nation, and the United States - as well as the rest of the outside world - have often stumbled over the fate of half of an impoverished island so small and so remote that even many Indonesians would have trouble finding it on a map.
But with the utterance of a few words by Indonesia's new president last week, the territory, East Timor, suddenly appears to be on the brink of independence. That has left the Clinton administration and other governments puzzling over how to respond to Indonesia's turnaround.
Indonesia, on the verge of economic and political collapse ...