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If we bludgeoned our way into East Timor the way we did Kosovo, we would encourage separatist rebels on Aceh, in West Irian and throughout Indonesia.

Dr. Wendell Phillips, a skillful promoter, won the only contract awarded to an individual in Indonesia; he paid a $500,000 fee and agreed to spend $17.5 million exploring onshore and offshore in West Irian.

The U.S., for instance, helped arrange the shabby deal whereby the U.N. handed West Irian to Sukarno.

During the feverish, all-night attempt to draft a final communiqu�, Indonesia's Sukarno begged the conference to support his demand for West Irian; Morocco's King Hassan II urged his claim against Mauritania.

West Irian had only provided the occasion for a break they considered inevitable.