Clashes in Indonesia follow
vote on future of leadership
■ As ballots were being
counted, fears were raised
that county could slide
back into lawlessness.
DILI, Indonesia (AP) - Armed
with homemade guns, rifles and
machetes, hundreds of militiamen
clashed with rock-throwing indepen
dence supporters Wednesday outside
U.N. headquarters in East Timor. The
violence came on the same day ballots
from a historic referendum on the ter
ritory’s future were being counted.
The militiamen, some wearing red
and-white headbands in Indonesia’s
national colors, shot, bludgeoned and
mutilated a 19-year-old at the gates of
the U.N. compound, killing him.
At least three others were injured
in the militiamen’s biggest show of
force yet, and the violence raised fears
that the former Portuguese colony
could slide back into lawlessness.
! A company of Indonesian riot
police, meanwhile, secured the muse
um building in Dili, where ballot
counting started Wednesday. The bal
lot had asked the mostly Roman
Catholic East Timorese whether they
wanted to become independent or
remain part of mostly Muslim
Indonesia as an autonomous region.
Pro-independence activists say the
size of the voter turnout on Monday -
98.6 percent - will result in a landslide
victory for independence. The results
of the ballot are expected next week.
East Timor has been a province of
Indonesia since being invaded by the
Indonesian military in 1975. After
decades of human rights abuses and
international condemnation, Jakarta
reversed policy in January and
announced East Timor would be given
the right of self-determination.
In recent weeks, leaders of several
militias fighting for continued
Indonesian rule vowed not to recog
nize a defeat in the polls and said they
would demand the establishment of
their own enclave. The United Nations
last week flatly rejected the concept.
Some of these vigilantes erected
roadblocks Wednesday throughout
western East Timor, trying to carve out
a zone of control. Foreign observers
accuse hard-line factions within
Indonesia’s armed forces of arming
and directing the militias.
Wednesday’s violence erupted
after hundreds of vigilantes gathered at
a funeral for a militiaman in Dili. At
the rally, militia leader Eurico Guterres
called for “eternal peace and stability
in East Timor.”
But a few hours later, dozens of
paramilitaries gathered to protest in
front of the headquarters of die United
Nations, which they claim rigged the
electipns. When confronted by-rock
throwing independence supporters,
the vigilantes opened fire.
Militiamen tripped and surround
ed one independence activist, shooting
at him as he fell to the ground. They
then struck him with their rifles and
slashed him with machetes, killing
him.
A local nurse identified him as 19
year-old Jorges Fransisco Bonaparte.
A taxi carrying journalists to the
scene was fired on, and militiamen
smashed its rear window. Indonesian
soldiers and police stood by without
intervening. It took over an hour for
several truckloads of riot police to
arrive and disperse the militants.
Panama s first woman
president inaugurated
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) -
Mireya Moscoso pledged “efficient
and responsible” administration of the
Panama Canal as she was sworn in
Wednesday as the first woman presi
dent of Panama.
Moscoso will preside over the
transfer of the canal to Panama on Dec.
31, ending the United States’ control of
the strategic waterway. The transfer will
be the final act in compliance with
Panama Canal Treaties, signed in 1977
by former President Jimmy Carter and
Panama’s previous military strongman
OmarTorrijos.
! “My government intends to
increase the autonomy of the Canal so it
may operate without any partisan polit
ical influence,” Moscoso told a cheer
ing crowd of25,000 at the capital’s new
baseball stadium. She was accompa
nied by her 8-year-old adopted son,
Ricardo^
Since 1977, the United States has
gradually been turning over thousands
of acres of land it occupied with mili
tary bases and other installations. The
United States also has been shifting to
Panama the administration of the canal,
which connects the Atlantic and the
Pacific oceans.
Moscoso said Panama will ask the
United States to turn over the occupied
areas free of “contamination prob
lems’” - referring to unexploded ord
nance on firing ranges.
“They (The United States) are
aware that this problem must be
resolved satisfactorily, and my govern
ment will negotiate toward this end,”
Moscoso said.
On the domestic front, Moscoso,
widow of the late populist leader
Arnulfo Arias, promised a “war on
poverty and social injustice ... to turn
Panama into a country of opportunity
for its children.”
She won the election with a cam
paign for change and promises to give
special attention to the poor - echoing
the slogans of her late husband, who
was deposed three times by the mili
tary
When the speech ended, Moscoso
visited the cemetery where Arias is
buried, placing flowers and the presi
dential sash on his tombstone. She then
stepped back, wiping tears from her
eyes, as a band played Taps.
“We are happy to see a woman
come to power for the first time,” said
Bertha Solis, an elementary school
teacher cheering Mireya from the stadi
um stands amid a sea of maroon, green
and red flags of the Amulfista party.
“She is down-to-earth, sensitive and
ready to work.” /
Moscoso also pledged reforms of
the health, judicial and education sys
u
We are happy to see a
woman come to power
for the first time.”
Bertha Sous
elementary school teacher
terns and a permanent battle against
corruption.
Outgoing President Ernesto Perez
Balladares, who was legally barred
frofn seeking re-election, has left an
economy growing at 4 percent annual
ly, a network of modem highways and
labor law reforms aimed at wooing for
eign investment. But, to his last day in
office, his administration was tainted
by corruption scandals at the top levels.
Moscoso’s inauguration ceremony
was delayed for VA hours by last
minute negotiations to secure a 36-35
majority in the National Assembly.
That allowed the selection of a new
assembly president, Enrique Garrido,
who swore in Moscoso.
On Monday, Moscoso’s party had
worked out a coalition with a minority
party, but a wavering member of that
party needed additional convincing
Wednesday morning.
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using White House
name goes to court
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
question of who owns rights to the
Internet address www.White
House.com - which now peddles
pornography - has reached federal
court. But the people pressing the
case have nothing to do with 1600
Pennsylvania Ave.
Rather, it is the maker of the
White House brand of apple juice and
apple sauce that is battling Dan Parisi,
contending he is infringing on the
company’s trademark by using the
Web address to display X-rated pic
tures.
In a letter to Parisi, attorneys for
the Virginia-based National Fruit
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quality of our client’s famous mark in
violation of... the Federal Trademark
Act.” They want Parisi to transfer
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company.
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the company to court. Two weeks ago
he filed a request for declaratory
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ates his Web site out of Jersey City,
N.J., said he tried to solidify his hold
on WhiteHouse.com by applying for
a trademark on his particular use of
the term “White House,” just as 32
other companies have done before.
He said his application was initially
approved, but then ultimately denied.
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appear under the White House label,
their name was bom in 1913 when the
National Fruit Product Company of
Winchester, Va., borrowed the name
“from the presidential mansion
across the river in Washington, D.C.,”
according to the company’s defini
tively G-rated Web site
(www.WhiteHouseFoods.com).
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site lures children and other unwitting
computer users trying to reach the
official site of government’s execu
tive branch (www.WhiteHouse.gov).
Some 400,000 to 500,000 differ
ent computer users visit the site each
month, many of whom visit multiple
times, he said.
Even if National Fruit Product
Company were to give in and offer to
buy rights to the domain name, Parisi
said he’s not interested.
“Why would we sell this? We’re
having a very good business right
now,” he said.
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