Belo rallies for crisis-hit daily

Belo rallies for crisis-hit daily

DILI, East Timor: Dili Catholic leader Bishop Carlos Felipe
Ximenes Belo called on subscribers of the Suara Timor Timur
yesterday to help ease the financial burden that has severely
affected the newspaper.

"I call on subscribers who have not paid their subscription
fees to soon fulfill their duties," Belo said.

His call followed reports that the monetary crisis and the
resulting soaring price of newsprint had forced the daily to
suspend publication temporarily.

The daily will not appear from Jan. 27 until Feb. 2, when it
will change the regularity of its publication.

The daily's general manager Salvador JX Soares said earlier
the newspaper would reappear on five days a week instead of six
days a week. (33)