NP "Feelings"
Doug Millison
millison at online-journalist.com
Sun Sep 12 13:56:06 CDT 1999
I might claim a vague M&D link; even without it I wanted to share this AP
news story
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-East-Timor-Feelings.html:
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- After a week of chaos and terror in East Timor,
Indonesia's powerful military boss sang "Feelings'' on Sunday to show why
he can't walk away from the independence-minded province.
To cheers from retired military officers at a party, Defense Minister Gen.
Wiranto dedicated the song to foreign journalists: "I hope you have the
same feelings, like me, for East Timor.''
His eyebrows arched in restrained emotion, Wiranto held the microphone in
both hands and stood stiffly in a yellow batik shirt and crooned as a band
played the 1975 hit popularized by Paul Williams:
"Feelings, nothing more than feelings, trying to forget my feelings of love.''
"Teardrops, rolling down on my face, trying to forget my feelings of love.
Feelings, for all my life I'll feel it ... I wish I've never met you, girl;
you'll never come again.''
He hit all the high notes.
Wiranto earlier said Indonesia's army, which invaded East Timor in 1975, is
profoundly attached to the former Portuguese colony and those residents who
backed Indonesian rule.
The international community has condemned the military for aiding and
directing anti-independence militias in a murderous rampage against East
Timorese who voted in a U.N.-backed referendum to break away from
Indonesia. (snip)
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Music to kill freedom fighters and innocent citizens by, I suppose.
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