---------------------------------------------------------- FREE for JOIN Indonesia Daily News Online via EMAIL: go to: http://www.indo-news.com/subscribe.html - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - Please Visit Our Sponsor http://www.indo-news.com/cgi-bin/ads1 ---------------------------------------------------------- East Timor: Three US Congressmen Visit Territory Providence, Rhode Island, Aug. 19 (Lusa) - Three United States congressmen, all members of the Democratic Party, were due Thursday to begin a three day trip to East Timor. Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island and representatives Tom Harkin of Iowa and James McGovern of Massachusetts have closely accompanied the situation in the former Portuguese colony annexed by Indonesia in 1976. In 1998 Reed sponsored a motion, which was approved by the Senate, recognizing the right of the East Timorese people to self-determination. In East Timor, the three US congressmen will tour polling stations set up by the UN for the territory's Aug. 30 referendum and meet with the bishop of Dili, Carlos Ximenes Belo, co-laureate of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize. They also plan to visit Indonesia, where they may be received by Indonesian President B.J. Habibie and by detained East Timor resistance leader Xanana Gusmao, who is held under house arrest in Jakarta. -Lusa- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 20 Aug 1999 jam 06:07:23 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
