Peacekeepers arrive in Timor
■ Conflicting reports, but
no resistance, accompany
troops across countryside.
LIQUICA, East Timor (AP) -
Peacekeepers dropped from heli
copters and fanned out through the
nearly deserted coastal town of
Liquica, as the multinational force
extended its control in East Timor
hours after the Indonesian army
relinquished its authority in the terri
tory.
On the opposite side of East
Timor, reports emerged that as many
as 16 people, including two nuns and
two seminary students, were killed
over the weekend during a mercy
mission to refugees.
The reported killings under
scored the urgency for the
Australian-led force to speed up its
deployment throughout the country
side, where militias opposed to inde
pendence maintain control.
The peacekeepers have encoun
tered no resistance as they have
moved into Dili and the countryside.
Details of the possible killings
were sketchy and conflicting.
The Roman Catholic bishop of
Baucau, East Timor’s second-largest
town, told the Portuguese state radio
RDP that nine people were killed
Saturday on a rural road when the
group was returning from an aid
assessment visit to Los Palos, 20
miles to the east.
“Unfortunately, we have received
confirmation today that they were
killed and thrown into a stream,”
Bishop Basilio do Nascimento said
in a telephone interview with RDP.
The Italian missionary news ser
vice MISNA in Rome reported as
many as 16 dead. The two nuns were
mother superiors in the towns of
Manatuto and Baucau, MISNA said.
Nascimento did not say who was
responsible, but MISNA said the
gunmen were pro-Indonesia militia
men.
The militia, backed by
Indonesian troops, rampaged
throughout East Timor in the wake of
the overwhelming vote for indepen
dence Aug. 30.
Indonesia had occupied the for
mer Portuguese colony since 1975.
Liquica, the town secured
Monday, was the scene of one of the
worst massacres in East Timor this
year.
Some two dozen people hiding in
the town church last April were
killed when militiamen threw tear
gas inside, then hacked to death
those who fled, witnesses have said.
When the Australian troops
arrived, Liquica was a ghost town.
Troops went from house to house
searching for hostile militiamen.
Groups of men emerged with their
hands up.
One man was found with a
machete and knife but was released
along with the others after question
ing.
Earlier Monday, the head of the
U.N.-approved force met the
Indonesian general who commanded
the East Timor garrison for what the
Indonesians described as the formal
handover of responsibility for securi
a-—
“They asked what they should do with
them, and the army replied, ‘Kill them’So
they shot them on the spot.”
Judith Arenas
Amnesty International spokeswoman
ty here.
But Maj. Gen. Peter Cosgrove,
apparently hoping to assuage
Indonesian sensitivities, said securi
ty duties will be shared by the two
armies until Indonesia’s legislature
endorses the independence vote.
“This is still Indonesian sover
eign territory,” he said.
Indonesia, which withdrew
15,000 soldiers in the seven days
since the peace force arrived, will
retain a token force of 1,500 men,
Cosgrove said.
The retreating soldiers burned
most of the buildings they left,
apparently determined to leave noth
ing useful for the East Timorese.
U.N. officials said Monday the
destruction and theft went beyond
the capital, Dili. They said soldiers
took water tankers and water trucks
from Manatuto, east of Dili, on
Sunday, leaving residents with no
water.
The militia violence destroyed 80
percent of the buildings in Manatuto,
the officials said in Darwin,
Australia.
Amnesty International said
refugees were telling them of mass
executions in the rampages.
In one case, four witnesses,
speaking separately, said they saw
militia members execute a group of
men on orders from the Indonesian
army.
“They asked what they should do
with them, and the army replied,
‘Kill them,”’ said Judith Arenas,
Amnesty’s spokeswoman in Darwin.
“So they shot them on the spot.”
Other East Timorese reported
seeing 15 students lined up on a
beach and shot, the London-based
human rights group said.
In Geneva, the U.N. Human
Rights Commission voted Monday
for an international inquiry into
atrocities in East Timor.
By Monday, 3,800 of the expect
ed 7,500 peacekeepers had arrived in
East Timor.
On Wednesday, U.S. Defense
Secretary William Cohen will visit
the staging area in Darwin, where
most of the 250 Americans in the
force are deployed, before coming to
Jakarta for talks with the Indonesian
government.
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Sony to offer
new version
of Walkman
TOKYO (AP) - Sony Corp. said
Monday it will start selling a
Walkman that fits into the palm of a
hand and downloads music from the
Internet while protecting copyrights.
The “Memory Stick Walkman” is
designed to fight the proliferation of
illegal music exchanges on the
Internet and to create a new standard
for portable audio players.
The Walkman will cost $430 and
requires a computer with Microsoft
Windows 98 to transfer music.
The Walkman uses technology to
protect the record industry from the
illegal copying and distribution of
music over the Internet. Currently,
music can be downloaded from the
Internet for free.
Memory Stick users would pay
for Internet music made compatible
with Sony’s encryption system but
would not be able to download songs
from free Web sites. A Sony
spokesman did not explain what
form the payments would take.
Companies like IBM, Sony,
Microsoft and scores of record com
panies have been banding together to
develop ways to protect the music
industry from the growing popularity
of MP3, a technology that gives near
CD quality to music downloaded
from the Internet.
Users of Sony’s new Walkman
would move music onto something
called a “Magic Gate Memory Stick”
- a thumb-sized rectangular card that
is inserted into the player.
Television takes to the Web
with Donaldson broadcast
WASHINGTON (AP) - ABC’s
Sam Donaldson took to the Internet
on Monday in an early test of how
America’s television industry will
fare as it cautiously embraces the
online medium.
Donaldson launched the first reg
ularly scheduled news program creat
ed especially for the Web by a major
network, which planned to broadcast
future shows live on the Internet three
times each week in the afternoon.
All indications pointed to an
embarrassingly small Internet audi
ence for the early effort - an online
survey of viewers during the broad
cast, for example, collected only 373
responses.
Donaldson, who appeared for the
15-minute Web broadcast in a tiny 2
inch window on computer screens,
acknowledged what appeared to be
lackluster numbers but said after
ward, “I’m pumped!”
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During the broadcast, viewers
could click for more information on
specific subjects and type comments
in a chat room. Donaldson promised
to read them all, though he didn’t dur
ing the show.
“I am a sensitive fellow,” he said
in advance. “I ask that you keep it a
little mild.”
ABC’s venture is unusual because
networks typically offer video on the
Internet only if it’s also being shown
on their traditional television and
cable broadcasts.
But Donaldson’s broadcast - he
interviewed the chairman of the
Federal Communications
Commission about high-speed
Internet connections on Monday’s
show and talked with a technology
executive - won’t be seen on televi
sion.
The industry’s online efforts to
date have been colored by deep fears
that by encouraging more viewers to
log onto the Internet, networks are
cannibalizing their lucrative cable
and television broadcasts: As people
turn on their PCs, they’re turning off
«
What the Internet is allowing us to do
is to access people where we haven’t been
accessing them before ”
Kerrin Roberts
CNN Interactive
their televisions.
“I think the days when you can’t
compete against yourself are gone,”
said David Westin, president of ABC
News. “Ubiquity is going to be the
future.”
Broadcasters also fear the extra
ordinary fragmentation of their audi
ence that’s possible on the Internet.
Instead of competing for viewers
against a few dozen cable networks,
Web sites must fight for attention
among millions of others.
“Eyeballs still matter,” said Lynn
Povich, MSNBC’s East Coast manag
ing editor. “There are a lot of (Web
sites) out there, and there is a lot of
segmentation by interests.”
But experts also point to an enor
mous opportunity by creating pro
grams during weekdays for the
Internet.
While few employees have televi
sions in their offices and cubicles,
most have computers with Internet
connections. ABC’s new show targets
these workers, airing at www.abc
news.com during the lunch hour, at
12:30, on Monday, Wednesday and
Friday.
“You’re going behind the iron
curtain at work, and that’s cool,” said
Rick Ducey, a senior vice president at
the National Association of
Broadcasters.
At CNN’s Web site, which offers
video clips, traffic peaks during the
day, but television viewership peaks
in the evening.
“What the Internet is allowing us
to do is to access people where we
haven’t been accessing them before,”
said CNN Interactive’s Kerrin
Roberts.
“If someone is not watching CNN
on television but going to the Web ...
we need for them to be coming to
(CNN). If there’s cannibalization, we
still want them to come through to
CNN.”
ABC encouraged viewers to
watch its Internet program as it’s
aired - the way traditional broadcasts
are shown - but also will store copies
on its Web site that can be seen at any
time.
“If you’re a TV broadcaster,
you’re used to doing business in a
certain way,” Ducey said.
But “if it’s 6:35, you’ve missed
the 6 o’clock news. With Internet
access, it makes sense to make that
news available.”
This ability to show video on
demand is among the Internet’s great
est strengths, but it can play havoc
with advertisers: If a company has a
huge sale next weekend, how useful
are its ads if they’re not seen until
after the sale?
But experts also promise new
benefits for advertisers. During an ad
by Ford Motor Co., for example, a
viewer could click to the local dealer
ship’s Web site, scan his list of cars
available, pick a color and select
options and set up an appointment to
haggle price.
ABC’s show offered a single 30
second ad during its first broadcast,
but didn’t include any such interac
tive features.