Correspondent Deborah Tate reports from Auckland, New Zealand, where President Clinton is traveling. We are talking about hundreds, not thousands, of Americans that would be involved, and not necessarily all of those would be based in East Timor.
Details are yet to be worked out.
Mr. Berger says he hopes the force would be deployed in East Timor in a matter of days. He estimates there are about 200-thousand displaced people in the territory, and says many are not close to food distribution points. He says a U-N Development Program ship is heading toward East Timor with supplies. There is not only a need to restore stability, but the need to provide humanitarian assistance, and therefore, I think there is a sense of urgency about this. The Nobel Peace Prize winner expressed concerns about continued violence in the territory unless peacekeepers are mobilized quickly.