71.   Wilson is the leader of a national East Timor solidarity movement with links to the Council for National Maubere Resistance, an external group of pro-East Timorese independence activists.

72.   Joining the mounting outcry over the burning of Indonesian flags, importers threatened at the weekend to halt trade if Canberra decides to protect East Timorese independence activists.

73.   Official government reports reaching Beijing Wednesday said independence activists in Tibet had turned to assassinations and bomb explosions to further their cause.

74.   Speaking in Sydney to German international radio, the East Timor independence activist said that no country carried more influence and weight with Indonesia than Germany.

75.   Ten people died, including two brothers of independence activist Jean-Marie Tjibaou, and four of the seven survivors were injured.

76.   The central government is being challenged by independence activists or Islamic militants in the area.