EAST TIMOR: SEPARISTS STORM AIRPORT AND TAKE OVER RUNWAY
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(20 Dec 1998) Natural Sound Hundreds of East Timorese separatists stormed the capital's airport and took over the runway forcing a visiting UN special envoy to alter his travel plans. Jamsheed Marker left the Indonesian-controlled territory after talks with its spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Carlos Belo. Marker said his discussions served as groundwork ahead of a new round of peace talks early next year in New York between Indonesia and East Timor's former colonial master
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