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        "msgid": "us-school-severs-ties-with-indonesia-1447893297",
        "date": "1999-12-22 00:00:00",
        "title": "U.S. school severs ties with Indonesia",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AP",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "U.S. school severs ties with Indonesia MONTPELIER, Vermont (AP): Norwich University said it would sever ties with the Indonesian military, which pays for 11 students to attend the school and has been accused of human rights abuses in East Timor three months ago. \"We are no longer going to accept payments from the Indonesian military for students to attend Norwich,\" said Tom Greene, spokesman for the oldest private military school in the U.S.",
        "content": "<p>U.S. school severs ties with Indonesia<\/p>\n<p>MONTPELIER, Vermont (AP): Norwich University said it would<br>\nsever ties with the Indonesian military, which pays for 11<br>\nstudents to attend the school and has been accused of human<br>\nrights abuses in East Timor three months ago.<\/p>\n<p>\"We are no longer going to accept payments from the Indonesian<br>\nmilitary for students to attend Norwich,\" said Tom Greene,<br>\nspokesman for the oldest private military school in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Norwich has been under pressure to take action regarding the<br>\n14 Indonesian students on campus since President Bill Clinton<br>\nissued a ban on U.S. support for the Indonesian military Sept. 8.<\/p>\n<p>The ban followed an Aug. 30 ballot in East Timor that<br>\ntriggered violence.<\/p>\n<p>Norwich officials have maintained that the presidential ban<br>\ndid not apply to the private school.<\/p>\n<p>But on Monday, university President Richard Schneider said he<br>\nhad concluded the alleged abuses and continued meddling by the<br>\nmilitary in the Indonesian government justified severing ties.<\/p>\n<p>Greene said Norwich would offer scholarships to the 11<br>\nstudents funded by the Indonesian military, so they could finish<br>\ntheir educations. Three other Indonesian students on campus are<br>\nfunded by their families, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\"The students who are currently at Norwich have done nothing<br>\nwrong personally, are valued members of our intellectual<br>\ncommunity,\" Greene said. \"We will honor our commitment to help<br>\neducate them.\"<\/p>",
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