Chomsky speaks

[Brad De Long]

>On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Brad De Long wrote:
>
>> >   According to recent reports, the UN mission in East Timor has been
>> >   able to account for just over 150,000 people out of an estimated
>> >   population of 850,000. It reports that 260,000 "are now languishing in
>> >   squalid refugee camps in West Timor under the effective control of the
>> >   militias after either fleeing or being forcibly removed from their
>> >   homes," and that another 100,000 have been relocated to other parts of
>> >   Indonesia.
>>
>> So that's 350,000 slaughtered in the past two years? Brad DeLong
>
>	Oh, go ahead: read the next sentence...

"presumed"; which means what? Are the presumptions accurate or not? Why
would people still be hiding in the mountains?