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To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (40046)	9/8/1999 4:33:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Good point you made there Caxton! Subtle, but good! Here's why Indonesia is killing East Timorese, from CNN news: <...East Timor's largely Roman Catholic residents voted last week for independence from the overwhelmingly Muslim Indonesia, which invaded the territory in 1975 after Portugal abandoned it. East Timor was a Portuguese colony for centuries.> cnn.com Jiang Zemin is hedging his bets already, muttering about it being good if such local hotspots can be resolved through dialogue. He sure won't be wanting equivalent elections in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet or maybe even Manchuria or Canton about independence. Hainan might want to go it alone too. Heck, empires are breaking up faster than the smooth Qualcomm stream of consciousness. It must be like Reynolds number in fluid mechanics - you reach a certain volume, flow rate, kinematic viscosity and hey presto, turbulent flow, instant fractalisation. So Indonesia is going to be an international pariah tomorrow morning. Xena and Jenny are talking tough. Jenny is right out of her depth on this one and really has little idea what's going on, what to do or what to say. She's reading from prepared scripts. Robin Cooke is telling Habibie the rules. Australia will be revving the engines. Indonesia is the fourth most populated country. Australia and New Zealand do NOT want a greater Indonesian co-prosperity sphere to include us. If they include East Timor, that's similar to Hitler just taking a little bit of Poland "I'm sure you'll understand!" No, we don't understand. It's time for them to leave town. Tomorrow would be good, voluntarily. They can do it involuntarily this weekend. It seems they plan to depopulate East Timor then they can say that the majority prefer to be part of Indonesia. This sort of stuff is NOT going to be good for cdmaOne or CDMA anything in Indonesia. That's a great shame. But being alive is probably more important than having a cool cellphone. Incidentally, here's a little clip from the CNN item, which makes me think Globalstar will sell very well! <Reports of sniper fire and looting continued to filter out of Dili, after telephone and satellite communications with the provincial capital were severed. The Indonesian military was given orders to shoot anyone who violated curfew after Jakarta declared martial law across the province on Tuesday. Siege conditions around the U.N. compound in Dili eased Wednesday morning after an Indonesian army officer pledged to protect the compound from anti-independence militias. Despite the increased military presence, gunfire continued to ring out around the compound, where more than 1,000 frightened residents have sought refuge. U.N. spokesman David Wimhurst said he had not heard from staff members there since Tuesday night. "Our communications have been cut off. We no longer have any satellite communications. They no longer have any (telephone) landlines," he said. > Who's going to go to any of these dodgy places without a Globalstar handset. Assuming there's a gateway in the area. Meanwhile, Catholics versus Moslems. Hell, that would be worse than Catholics versus Protestants. Okay, Jiang, Bill, you're up next! Mqurice