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DATE=9/17/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=EAST TIMOR AID (S-2ND UPDATE)
NUMBER=2-254006
BYLINE=KYLE KING
DATELINE=JAKARTA
CONTENT=
      // Updates earlier CR -- multiple 
deliveries, new thruout  //
INTRO:  Airdrops of food aid have begun in East 
Timor, where hundreds of thousands of people 
have been forced from their homes by anti-
independence militiamen.  V-O-A's Kyle King has 
this report from Jakarta.
TEXT:   The airlift began with an Australian C-
130 cargo plane that dropped pallets of rice and 
other supplies to refugees living in the hills 
south of Dili.
U-N officials say the aid could feed about 15-
thousand people and that it was targeted on an 
area where internally displaced refugees are 
believed to be the most hard-pressed.
As the U.N. airdrops began, the International 
Committee of the Red Cross was organizing aid 
flights to Dili on Indonesian military planes.  
Red Cross officials say they are hoping to bring 
in at least two planeloads of supplies a day.
Hundreds of thousands of people in East Timor 
were driven from their homes during the looting 
and violence carried out by anti-independence 
militias.  Many are believed to have run out of 
food.
NEB/KK/LTD/rrm 
17-Sep-1999 10:05 AM EDT (17-Sep-1999 1405 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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