DATE=9/17/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=EAST TIMOR / AID (S UPDATE)
NUMBER=2-253996
BYLINE=KYLE KING
DATELINE=JAKARTA
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
// ADDS, ACTUALITY, NEW INFO THRUOUT //
INTRO: The Australian Air Force has begun
airlifting food aid to 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: An Australian C-130 transport plane flew
about 15 tons of rice to starving refugees in
East Timor, after Indonesian officials granted
permission for a single air drop.
International aid agencies are hoping to
organize regular flights, as quickly as
possible. But U-N aid coordinator Ross Mountain
says Indonesia has still not given blanket
approval.
// MOUNTAIN ACTUALITY //
No it has not. It is case-by-case and this is a
first approval.
// END ACTUALITY //
Aid workers say the first air drop could feed
about 15 hundred people for one day.
Hundreds of thousands of people in East Timor
have been without supplies since they fled their
homes during a wave of violence and killing by
anti-independence militias.
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Neb/kbk / wd
17-Sep-1999 06:12 AM LOC (17-Sep-1999 1012 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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