<HTML>Could someone explain to the more dense of us the political import of the fact that a Finnish UN worker was in a hit and run accident in East Timor? <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subject: Finn Accused of Killing East Timorese Returns Home AP Worldstream February 2, 2001; Friday SECTION: International news HEADLINE: Finn accused of killing East Timorese returns home DATELINE: HELSINKI, Finland A Finnish U.N. worker accused of killing an East Timorese woman in a hit-and-run traffic accident has arrived home but did not flea the police, the Foreign Ministry said Friday. The man, who was working as a border official in East Timor, came home several weeks ago, said Pekka Hyvonen, a ministry counselor. ''He didn't flea. </BLOCKQUOTE> Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869) Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass -- </HTML>