"I regret to have to express my reservation regarding the implementation of article XXII of the Agreement, relating to the 'rights, including the rights of free speech, freedom of movement and of assembly, of the inhabitants of the area'. In spite of my constant efforts, this important provision was not fully implemented and the Administration exercised at all times a tight political control over the population."

Commentary by the National Liberation Council of West Papua, Poptahof-Nrd. 299, 2624 RN Delft, The Netherlands. Tel. 015-2613036, Fax. (15)-2613036. "It is known that Dr. Ortiz Sanz, the United Nations representative for advising, assisting and co-organizing the 'Act of Free choice' in 'West Irian' in 1969, was severely hampered in executing his tasks by the Indonesian government. He was not allowed by the Indonesian government to give advice, nor to assist and co-organize, as it was laid down in article XVII of the 'New York Agreement' of 1962. In addition, he was not allowed to take a large staff (50 people) to 'West Irian' because there was 'no sufficient housing available for those people', according to Indonesia. It was also known that the original content of his final report to the 24th General Assembly of the United Nations in 1969 was not accepted by the Asian Secretary General U Thant, because the wording of the report was too sharp and too negative for Indonesia. Consequently, great pressure was put on Dr. Ortiz Sanz to soften the wording of his final report. Despite this pressure Dr. Ortiz Sanz did maintain some of his original remarks in his revised report so that he was still able to express his criticism and regret openly. It has now become apparent that the appropriation of West Papua (New Guinea) by Indonesia, has been accompanied by all types of deceit and intimidation. Both the Melanisean people of West Papua (New Guinea) and the United National have been deceived."

• "Nothing, however, about Mr. Moffett and his businesses is ever simple."
• "Yesterday, analysts and company spokesmen struggled to explain how Mr. Moffett's latest deal worked. Mr. Moffett was not available, and the companies' prime statement was a joint press release that in some cases juggled several different Freeport-McMoran entities in the same sentence."
• "Yesterday's agreement is not binding, but the companies said they expect to have a definite agreement in a month and to complete the deal by the end of the year."

"The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) has issued a press statement about the Timika Incident calling for the postponment of the disbursement of the Freeport One Per Cent Trust Fund. This would help calm the anxieties of the local community and open the way for a review of the way in which the funds are used. Komnas HAM Secretary-General Baharuddin Lopa said: 'This would be a first step towards creating an atmosphere of mutual understanding in seeking a solution to the basic problems.'"

International Purveyors is a front for Freeport McMoran, the mining giant allegedly involved in environmental plunder & human rights abuses in West Irian. International Purveyors, the company allied with the Howard Government in its war on the Maritime Union, is a front for Freeport McMoRan, infamous for its alleged desecration of Papuan sacred sites, environmental and human rights abuses.

• "The church leaders said the commission (Komnas Ham) could not possibly have gathered enough facts to find a solution to the series of conflicts that have mainly pitted the local population against a subsidiary of US mining giant Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc. over the past two years."
• "`The commission's attempt was insincere and incomplete upon investigating the long-drawn conflicts between the (local) people and Freeport as well as the internal conflict among tribesmen over the one-percent trust fund set up by Freeport,' the statement said."

• At least 507 people have died recently in Irian Jaya (West Papua) from drought related diseases, including cholera and malnutrition, a result of the worst Indonesian drought in 50 years, a drought attributed to El Nino. Another 300 are gravely ill. Most of the sickness is occuring in the Baliem Valley. Several hundred thousand people are now suffering food shortages. Residents of several villages are said to have only one week of food left.
• Land clearing forest fires, which would normally have been controlled at this season by rain, have now created such an incredible haze throughout much of the gigantic Indonesian archipelago that much air and even sea traffic has become difficult-to-impossible. Somewhere between .5 million and 4 million million acres have burned, depending upon whose estimates one uses. The Indonesian government has ordered a complete stop to further clearing fires and has even apologized to neighboring countries for the haze. But with no rain in sight for perhaps months, it is hard to tell how bad the haze/drought situation will become. There are suggestions that the haze is reaching the Phillipines, Thailand, and Australia. 50,000 Indonesians are said to have sought medical attention because of the haze.
• In the southwestern corner of Papua New Guinea, the famous Ok Tedi copper mine has now shut down because of the water shortage. The Fly River, a backbone for transportation of materials and from the mine, has shrunk to a dribble.
• Some crops have failed in Irian Jaya (West Papua). Presumably because of the water shortage, some residents of the Baliem valley have consumed contaminated water and died.
• Because of the haze it is even more difficult than usual to reach the many areas of largely roadless Irian Jaya (West Papua), such as the Baliem valley, that are generally only accessible by air, thus inhibiting both an accurate assessment of the deaths due to the drought and also the distribution of food, water, and medicine.
• The Indonesian government is going to try seeding clouds to make rain. Ironically, it has been reported that some of the fires in Irian were set by natives who believe that smoke will cause rain.
• Governments of the USA, Belgium, Britain, Germany, and Australia have issued travel warnings to tourists.
• Utter speculation: there is some fear that the fire will ignite peat and lignite coal fires that could burn for years!
• More speculation: the haze may have contributed to the mid-air explosion of an Airbus, killing more than 200.

It is reported that there are also fires in the vast Lorentz National Park, which adjoins the Freeport mine area.

• " An estimated 200,000 people in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore have been forced to seek hospital treatment for the effects of prolonged exposure to dangerously high levels of air pollution."
• "An authority on peat forests, Mr Faizal Parish, who is executive director of the independent agency Wetlands International, based at the University of Malaya, says the damage already caused by the forest-fires in Indonesia may result in a 5 per cent increase in global greenhouse gases."
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• Contains a group photo with this caption: "... The man with the gun is wearing Freeport issue helment and windbreaker, and said he worked at the mine."
• "The only way to tell the difference between (Freeport) security and the Indonesian military is that security carries AK-47s and the soldiers carry M-16s. Now, you don't have to worry too much about security; they're usually OK. But watch out for the soldiers. If they say, 'Jump,' you say, 'How high?' There are 65 of them in here, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of hostile natives. You can bet only the crazies got this assignment." The men in the room wore Freeport windbreakers. Some carried AK-47s. None wore anything to indicate they were soldiers.
• "In many press releases (and even full-page ads in the New York Times), Freeport has repeatedly stated that its personnel do not carry guns. But I saw them carrying guns."
• "We went from the squalor of base camp to the luxury of his modern condo in Tembagapura, literally "Copper Town," a community of 15,000 built by Freeport a few thousand feet below the mine, Tembagapura sits in a box canyon, looking down on dark chasms a mile deep, and up at steep green mountainsides that sprout scores of thin waterfalls whenever it rains. ... When we had showered, shaved, and filled our stomachs at a company mess, we sunk into the soft sofas in his living room to watch CNN and the Discovery Channel. Tickled to have a captive audience, he entertained us all evening with stories of his 11 years at the mine. He showed us promotional videos produced by the company, debunking them as we watched and laughing at the company's claim that the local water was drinkable. He related the latest incident in the perpetual conflict engendered by the presence of the mine: A few months before, he had been up working when his wife called from the condo to say that a brigade of half-naked Papuans was lobbing spears and shooting arrows from the perimeter - a metal fence about 75 feet from their door. Soldiers were in the living room, firing back from the balcony and windows with M-16s. ... "Keep your nose inside, dear, those are real bullets they're shooting," and went back to work. "Oh," he told us, "they'll probably attack again in six months. This place is a war zone. Used to be, whenever something like this happened, they [the soldiers] would fly over some village in a helicopter gun-ship and wipe it out with napalm. The soldiers would shoot tribals for sport and get pictures of themselves resting a foot on the chest or head of their kill, like trophy hunters. That's why you'll never see a Javanese outside the perimeter without a gun. The natives don't mind Americans and Europeans too much, but they hate Javanese."

• "Last February, an Indonesian military intelligence team filmed American human-rights activist Danny Kennedy lifting samples from the silt-laden Aikwa River in the lowlands of southern Irian Jaya (West Papua). Later, when Kennedy attempted to airfreight the vials of water to Australia, he was detained and quickly deported. His crime: conducting scientific research without proper authorization."
• "Freeport is also forking out $35 million for barracks and other facilities for an 800-strong military task force the government brought in after anti-Freeport rioters rampaged through Timika and the high-altitude Tembagapura mining camp in March 1996. The Indonesian army recently assigned six armoured cars to Timika, which one activist now calls 'the most militarized district in Indonesia.'"

"More than a quarter of Papua New Guinea's population is now facing starvation because of the country's drought and the worst is yet to come, according to new Australian research. In December, the number of people badly affected by the drought doubled to more than one million from half a million three months earlier, the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAid) said in a report due for release Thursday. And one of the report's authors, who released details to AFP Tuesday, said that figure would jump again in the next few months, with the worst conditions expected in February and March. "

• Where indigenous people clash with development projects, the developers almost always win. Decisions regarding development projects, resource-use concessions, and other economic activities are generally carried out without the participation or informed consent of the affected communities. Unlike in past years, there were no reports that environmental NGO's that sought to aid these communities were subjected to verbal attacks, raids, and other forms of intimidation by government security forces.
• Tensions with indigenous people in Irian Jaya (West Papua), including in the vicinity of a foreign mining concession area near Timika, continued. Indigenous Irian Jaya (West Papua) residents complain of racism, religious bias, paternalism, and condescension as constant impediments to better relations with non-Irianese people, including members of the Government, the military and the non-Irianese business community. They also complain of abusive behavior by the security forces. A large percentage of the population of Irian Jaya (West Papua) is now made up of migrants, who are economically and politically dominant. Most civil servants in local governments in Irian Jaya (West Papua) and other isolated areas continue to come primarily from other parts of Indonesia, rather than from the local indigenous population.
• The anticipated distribution of funds from a foreign mining company created tensions that helped lead to a clash between tribal groups and security forces in August in the Timika-Tembagapura area, which led to the shooing deaths of two Irianese and injuries to security forces (see Section 1.a.). At about the same time, two groups supporting rival leaders of the Moni tribal group held demonstrations over their claims to part of the funds from the foreign mining company, and then later massed together near the office of the local district leader to press their demands. Credible NGO sources report that bystanders to this event were assaulted by security forces. Due to local protests over how the funds would be allocated, the company suspended disbursements for new projects under this initiative.

"A program started by a New Orleans mining company to help tribal people in Irian Jaya has contributed to tensions in the Indonesian island community, a new human rights report by the U.S. State Department says. The report also says the Indonesian government has ignored or been slow to react to a 1995 report on human rights violations in Irian Jaya."

• "It is inconceiveable that the United States feels privileged to continue to systematically target a number of developing countries like Indonesia as the violators of the human rights of their own people," a foreign ministry statement said.
• "Publication of imbalanced and self-righteous reports containing inaccuracies, baseless accusation and heresies such as the State Department's report will only hamper efforts to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms."

The Indonesian Government is causing a secret catastrophe in Papua New Guinea, condoning murder, corruption, racism and environmental degradation, according to one of Australia's best-known scientists and authors, Tim Flannery. "The Indonesian Government is a brutal and totally corrupt regime," he said. "They are still shooting their blacks. We [Australia] have sold out to the worst form of colonial oppression."

"THOUSANDS of people in Irian Jaya (West Papua), the Indonesian half of New Guinea, have died from starvation and malaria in the past three months, according to aid workers who have just left the region. Mortality levels have risen by more than 700 per cent in some areas of the Jayawijaya regency after an eight-month drought that killed off crops and provided fertile breeding grounds for malaria-carrying mosquitoes, one Western aid worker reported. `It's much worse than people have been led to believe. At least 6,000 people have died and more are dying every day.'"

• "'Moffett thinks of us as animals ... But he was born naked, like me. He is not a god; he just has a lot of money.'" Tsenawatme of Lemasa.
• "Does a company doing business with a corrupt government bear any responsibility for the lawless acts of a lawless regime?"
• "'The majority agreed that we should not let this guy (Paterniti) in, but we need a valid reason,' he (Freeport VP Vice-President Robinette) writes, 'Our intelligence research showed no reason that we could use to keep him out ... Barring a reporter because we don't like his publication or his personality leaves us open to the charge that we allow only those in who we think will be pro-Freeport.'"
• "... Timika, a boomtown of 35,000 people that has become the main staging area for Grasberg, will be burned to the ground ..." Paul Murphy quoting Tom Beanal from an Indonesian paper.

Amungme tribal leader Yosepha Alomang, a mother of 10, should be in Britain. But as she boarded the plane this month in Irian Jaya (West Papua), Indonesia, to head for London and the Rio Tinto annual meeting, she was stopped by the military. Had she come, Ms Alomang would have told the mining firm's corporate shareholders a harrowing tale of torture at the hands of the authorities. Four years ago she was imprisoned without charges, sexually abused and threatened with being shot. Held for a month in a filthy room, she was made to eat her own faeces.

Ms Alomang is one of many outspoken critics of the huge Freeport copper mine, high in the mountains of Irian Jaya (West Papua), which is part-owned by Rio Tinto. For years the mine has been the centre of well-documented human rights violations against indigenous groups. It is also an example of an increasingly common trend that sees governments working in the interests of global corporations, against their own people. The mine subsidises the army by more than $30 million a year, and, like Shell in Nigeria or BP in Colombia, its owners distance themselves from atrocities carried out to "protect" its operation.

• "`Stop the genocide' and `Halt the military operation' said the banners carried by the group of about 100 Irianese who were matched in number by armed troops."
• "Spokesman for the Jakarta Irianese community, Hengky Joku, claimed 400,000 Irianese had been killed by the Indonesian military (known by the acronym ABRI) since Indonesia took over the province in the western half of New Guinea island in 1963. `This comes from claims from Irianese families,' he told reporters. `My father was the first one who was killed.'"
• "The Irianese also called for the giant Freeport copper and gold mine in the southern highlands to be shut down. `Freeport causes death in Irian,' a spokesman for the Concerned Community Front for Irian said."

• Suharto "and Freeport Minerals president Forbes Wilson at the dedication of the Ertsberg mine in March 1973." p. 104 of Grasberg: Mining the Richest and Most Remote Deposit of Copper aand Gold in the World, in the Mountains of Irian Jaya (West Papua), Indonesia. George Mealey Publishers: Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold. ISBN 0-9652890-0-1. 1996.
• Suharto "and Freeport CEO Jim Bob Moffett at the celebratoin of inaugurating Kuala Kencan." p. 332 of Grasberg: Mining the Richest and Most Remote Deposit of Copper aand Gold in the World, in the Mountains of Irian Jaya (West Papua), Indonesia. George Mealey Publishers: Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold. ISBN 0-9652890-0-1. 1996.
• A picture from the front page of the July 13 issue of the Jakarta Post, in which Suharto pins the development medal of merit on the chest of Freeport-McMoRan CEO Jim Bob Moffett. Austin Chronicle, September 12, 1997.

  In Mealey, op. cit., p. 86 we read "As the first contract of work (1967) under the new Indonesian law, the agreement (the contract of work) broke new ground, Freeport's tax department helped the Indonesian government develop its system for taxing expatriates, something with which it had no experience, even opening its salary books so the tax office could get a general idea of the level of expatriate pay. The good relationship between Freeport and the Indonesian government also established the notion of the primacy of a contract, that the terms of a contract are not affected by future changes in, for example, the Indonesian tax code."

  See also Freeport and Busang. Also, "In February, Freeport won an agreement for developing the Busang field with Bre-X and a close associate of President Suharto's." NY Times, April 30, 1997. Also, "Freeport, through Mr. Moffett's connections with Indonesian President Suharto, was brought into the Busang project as mine developer and manager after a deal with Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp. fell through." Ottawa Citizen, April 30, 1997.

  "Moffet arrived in Timika on Friday night after meeting President Suharto earlier in Jakarta." AFP, April 13, 1996.

  "Early this year, according to The Financial Times of London, a company that is 80 percent owned by 'foundations' chaired by President Suharto bought a five percent interest in the mine, Suharto's government has long owned nine percent directly." Mark Bowen, Climbing Magazine, Nov. 1, 1997.

  "At a recent dinner celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Asia Society (a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering understanding between Asians and Americans), General Suharto was warmly introduced by one of his leading corporate patrons and beneficiaries, James Robert Moffett, the chief executive officer of Louisiana-based mining company Freeport-McMoRan." Eyal Press, Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 10, 1995, p. 19.

  Suharto "sees the Grasberg mine as the cornerstone of his eastern Indonesia development policy. The government has a 10% stake in Freeport Indonesia, with another 5% owned by Nusamba, a Suharto foundation run by presidential ally Mohamad 'Bob' Hasan." John McBeth, Far Eastern Economic Review, December 5, 1997.

  "The mine's future was reported to have been raised by President Suharto of Indonesia when he dined at the White House in late October." The Independent on Sunday, 26 Nov 1995, Janine Roberts.

  "On Thursday night, Indonesian President Suharto stopped in Washington for a dinner in his honor to benefit CARE, the relief organization. Moffett hosted the dinner. The next morning, Suharto called on President Clinton at the White House. A press release said that the talks focused on lofty subjects, including the Asian economy. But a senior Administration official acknowledged afterward that Suharto urged Clinton to make sure OPIC insurance would be preserved for Freeport-McMoran's Indonesian mining operations." LA Times, October 30, 1995. Includes photo of Suharto and Clinton.

  "Since 1983, Freeport's political action committee has paid members of Congress more than $730,000 for their favors. Louisiana's J. Bennett Johnston, the Senate's staunchest advocate of the Suharto regime and of US. oil and mining interests, got $8,000." ... "Jim Bob calls Suharto 'a compassionate man,' and indeed the dictator's tenderness for Freeport is such that he has seen to it that anyone who gets in the company's way is simply removed. About a month after the confrontation between the Amungme chief and the Freeport exec, 2,000 Amungme living near the mining site were ordered to leave their homes by the Indonesian government. It was a familiar action, one in a series of forced removals that began in 1967, when Freeport was granted the right to exploit Irian Jaya (West Papua)'s mineral resources." Eyal Press, The Nation, July 31, 1995. (Johnston is now on the Freeport board.)

  "While Bre-X, a small exploration company, has relatively little besides this project, Freeport-McMoran Copper and Gold is an old hand at Indonesian mining and investment. With close ties to the Suharto Government, the company has developed the world's largest copper mine and the third-largest gold mine in Irian Jaya (West Papua), another remote region, along the flanks of a dormant volcano." NY Times, April 29, 1997.

  "With close ties to the Suharto Government of Indonesia, Freeport-McMoran Copper and Gold has developed the world's largest copper mine and third-largest gold mine in that nation's remote Irian Jaya (West Papua) region." Allen Myerson, NY Times, July 29, 1997.

  "Following the shock announcement that US insurance company OPIC was cancelling Freeport's USD100 million policy against political unrest, it has been revealed that the Indonesian government lobbied hard against this possibility. Without mentioning its sources, Tiras says President Suharto asked President Clinton at their meeting 27 October to prevent the cancellation." Tiras, 16 November 1995.

  "The same company whose CEO describes Suharto as his 'partner' opts to make no comment about abuses committed by troops under Suharto's command." Eyal Press, Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 10, 1995.

  "Suharto visited Timika in early December to show his support for the embattled company." Far Eastern Economic Review. 25 January 1996.)

• On July 2, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Yosepha Alomang, an Amungme tribal member from Irian Jaya (West Papua), Indonesia, may proceed with her tort claim against Freeport in state district court in New Orleans. The ruling means that Alomang's attorney in New Orleans, Martin Regan, may now subpoena documents and take depositions from Freeport officials to determine what the officials know about human rights and environmental problems at the vast Grasberg mine, which contains the richest gold deposit on earth.
• Freeport spokesman Garland Robinette downplayed the ruling, telling the New Orleans Times-Picayune, "This is strictly a procedural thing in the courts. It has nothing to do with the issues in the suit." Indeed, while the ruling is a win for Alomang, who allegedly was tortured for several weeks by Indonesian soldiers stationed at the mine site, it could be years before her claims ever go before a jury. But it appears the ruling could hasten settlement negotiations between Freeport and tribal leaders.
• Meanwhile, newspapers in Jakarta, Singapore, and Australia all have carried stories over the past month questioning the links between Freeport and the corrupt regime of former Indonesian president Suharto. Freeport held a press conference July 10 in Jakarta to deny allegations of impropriety. An Agence France Presse story reports Freeport-Indonesia president Adrianto Machribie "decried as `false and misleading' newspaper accounts that suggested Suharto and his associates had improper links with the company."
• The article also detailed the transaction which allowed the PT Nusamba Company - 80% of which is owned by foundations controlled by Suharto - to buy a 4.7% stake in the Freeport mine. Freeport financed Nusamba's loan for the purchase, something Freeport calls a commonly practiced business deal.

"JAYAPURA, Irian Jaya (West Papua) - The Forestry and Plantation Ministry has approved a plan to declare the Lorentz National Park in Indonesia's easternmost province of Irian Jaya (West Papua) as a World Heritage Site, a local environmentalist organisation official said here Thurday.

The ministry was also calling on the public everywhere to conserve the area which is endowed with one of the rarest ecosystems in the world, said August Rumansara, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) coordinator for Eastern Indonesia. The Irian the Jaya governor, local customary institute leaders, church leaders, NGO activists and the press had thrown their weight behind the plan, he said."

"Between 1991 and 1997, Freeport made at least $673 million of loan guarantees to three Indonesians with close ties to Mr. Suharto or his ministers. One of those loans helped one of the Indonesians turn a one-year profit of 500% on his $40 million investment -- and helped Freeport renew a crucial mining license. Suharto allies, including at least one cabinet minister, bought assets from the company, such as housing and a hotel near the mine, in deals that Freeport not only helped finance, but in which the company also guaranteed buyers sizable annual profits. In another deal, Freeport not only guaranteed debt, but also agreed to subsidize interest payments for a Suharto- family business partner, enabling him to buy 4.7% of Freeport's Indonesian unit."

"Concerned about U.S. anticorruption laws, Freeport's lawyers and lenders were wary of the terms extended to such a close Suharto partner, Mr. Moffett says. The company that bought the shares, called PT Nusamba Mineral Industri, was 100%-owned by PT Nusantara Ampera Bakti. The parent, known as Nusamba, is widely accepted in Indonesia as being controlled by the Suharto family. Mr. Hasan himself has said in interviews that Nusamba is 80%-owned by three Suharto-chaired foundations, 10%-owned by his eldest son, and 10%-owned by Mr. Hasan."

Next came critics representing the Seattle Mennonite Church, Christian Brothers (a Catholic order), and Project Underground, a California-based environmental group, all of whom threw darts at the company. Michelle Chan, who represented the Catholic order, said that a pending human rights lawsuit brought against Freeport by local indigenous people "is an example of how the company has failed to address management issues. Why did relations degenerate to the point where the company is facing a $6 billion lawsuit?" she asked. The lawsuit, currently pending in state court in New Orleans, was filed by local tribal leaders in 1996. Adkerson told Chan the lawsuit is "without merit and [we] are confident the court will agree with that."

The strength of the Indonesian position lies in the fact that....they must know that, even if there are protests about the way they go through the motions of consultation, no other power is likely to conceive it as being in their interests to intervene. There will be protests from the Papuan exiles in Holland, Japan and at the United Nations. I understand that the exiles may find some support in the Australian press. But I cannot imagine the US, Japanese, Dutch or Australian Governments putting at risk their economic and political relations with Indonesia on a matter of principle involving a relatively small number of very primitive people."

The strength of the Indonesian position lies in the fact that....they must know that, even if there are protests about the way they go through the motions of consultation, no other power is likely to conceive it as being in their interests to intervene. There will be protests from the Papuan exiles in Holland, Japan and at the United Nations. I understand that the exiles may find some support in the Australian press. But I cannot imagine the US, Japanese, Dutch or Australian Governments putting at risk their economic and political relations with Indonesia on a matter of principle involving a relatively small number of very primitive people."

GUS DUR: DON'T SELL PAPUA'S FUTURE TO HENRY KISSINGER. Comments by Emmy Hafild, Executive Director of WALHI-Indonesian Forum for Environment, on Henry Kissinger's increasing involvement with Indonesia.

• "This year, Freeport put an Amungme chief, Tom Beanal, on the board of Freeport Indonesia, the subsidiary operating the mine."
• "Gabrielle K. McDonald is the first African American woman to serve as a U.S. District Court judge. For six years, she served on the Bosnia war-crimes tribunal at The Hague. .. In November, McDonald was named special counsel on human rights by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., ... 'Moffett said he told her: ``Gaby, you have full rein. You make recommendations, and I'll take them.'"
• "Indeed, local tribes honor deals only as long as the person who made them is ali