Pacific Affairs —Richard Holbrooke.rnHolbrooke’s policy became entrenched.rnCongress did not terminaternInternational Military Education andrnTraining (IMET) aid to Jakarta until afterrnthe November 1991 massacre of overrn270 East Timorese by Indonesian troops.rnHowever, in March 1997, in tesHmonyrnto the House Foreign Operations AppropriationsrnSubcommittee, the Clinton administrationrnadmitted providing Indonesiarnwith military training (includingrn”Advanced Sniper Techniciues,” “MilitaryrnOperations in Urban Terrain,” andrn”Air Assault”) throughout 1996 —thernvery time Clinton was accepting campaignrndonations from Indonesia’s LippornCroup —in violation of the clear intentrnof the congressional ban.rnWhile Holbrooke’s actions regardingrnEast Timor should be grounds for thernSenate to reject his nomination as Ambassadorrnto the U.N., the question ofrnaccountability remains. While Holbrookernchampioned an InternationalrnWar Crimes Tribunal for Bosnia, hernfears one for East Timor. As a humanrnrights activist has noted, if such a court isrnestablished, one of the first people it willrnindict will be Richard Holbrooke.rn— Joseph E. FallonrnEPICYCLES:rn• Preserve, Protect, and Defend: Notrncontent with massive federal land grabsrnin the name of ecological restoration,rnPresident Clinton has set his sights onrnAmerica’s historical treasures. In Jul),rnClinton deputized his wife and sent herrnoff on a four-day trip to identify^ significantrnnational treasures, saying, “Everyrncommunity in this country has got somernpiece of itself that needs to endure.” (Ofrncourse, one might argue that it would bernnice if entire communities could endure,rnbut that would undoubtedly interferernwith the federal government’srnplans.) In conjunction with his wife’srntrip. President Clinton urged Congressrnto pass the “Save the American TreasuresrnProgram.” Historical preservationists undoubtedlyrnwere confused, however,rnwhen Clinton tied their efforts to foreignrnintervention: “We have all kinds of responsibilitiesrnnow to the rest of the worldrnwe didn’t have before, because now thernworld is yearning for freedom, and therernis no Cold War. We must summon ourselvesrnto understand that in the 21st century,rnpreserving everything good aboutrnAmerica at home requires us to be morerninvolved with our neighbors around thernworld than ever before.”rn• Bean There, Done That: PresidentrnClinton’s trip to China this summer generatedrnplenh’ of controversy about . . .rnBeanie Babies? Shorth- after Clinton returnedrnto the United States, the WashingtonrnPost reported that U.S. TradernRepresentative Charlene Barshefsky,rnwho is charged with protecting America’srntrading interests, returned from Chinarnwith as many as 40 Beanie Babies.rnThe stuffed animals are manufactured inrnChina for Ty, Inc., an Illinois-basedrncompany. According to CNN, “the U.S.rnCustoms Service has placed a limit ofrnone Beanie Baby per family for peoplernre-entering the United States.” Barshefrnsky’s contraband has a total retail value ofrnapproximately $240; on the street, however,rnshe could get thousands for herrnstash. Barshefsky’s Beanie Baby fixationrncame under fire from Jim Nicholson, thernchairman of the Republican NationalrnCommittee, who declared, “Instead ofrntrying to reduce our $50 billion traderndeficit with China, our trade representativernwas scouring the street markets ofrnBeijing grabbing up every illegal, blackrnmarket Beanie Baby she could get herrnhands on.” Barshefsky has turned thernstuffed animals over to the Customs Service.rnOBITER DICTA: Chronicles is illustratedrnthis month by St. Petersburg nativernAnatol Woolf, who, in addition tornfreelance work, has designed sets for theatersrnin Russia and provided illustrationsrnfor St. Petersburg Textbook Publishers.rnSince coming to America in 1987, Mr.rnWoolf has been a frequent contributingrnartist to Chronicles, as well as to thernWashington Post, the Washington Times,rnPolicy Review, National GeographicrnTraveler, Tegal Times, and Cricket. Mr.rnWoolf works w ith a variet)’ of materials,rnfrom watercolors to pencil to acrylic.rnFurther samples of his work arernavailable on his Web page: www.netcom.rncom/~a.woolf/.rnLawrence Dugan, a librarian whornlives in Philadelphia, has contributedrntwo poems this month. Mr. Dugan’s po-,rnetr)’ has appeared in numerous nationalrnand international publications, includingrnthe New Republic, Southern Review,rnthe Spectator, Encounter, Commonweal,rnTar River Poetry; Irish Edition, and Poetry’rnAustralia.rn^pBLHrniArnWayne Fuller, The Old Country School:rnThe Story of Rural Education in the MiddlernWest (University of Chicago Press).rnThis classic stiidy of the one-room schoolhousernshows that, from the ver)’ beginning,rnschool consolidation has led to the dumbing-rndown of education.rnLaura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on thernPrairie (Harper Trophy). The chapters onrnLaura’s experiences as a schoolmarm presentrna vivid picture f_)f the pioneer schoolhousernin action.rnEdward Eggleston, Hoosier School-Masterrn(Indiana University Press). The life of arnschoolteacher has never been easy, as thisrnnovel of education in rural Indiana shows.rnCharles Glenn, Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe (Cato). With therncollapse of communism, state control of education in Eastern Europe wasrnbroken. Clenn examines educational developments—some public, most privatern—that point toward a new relationship between school and state.rnHoosiers. Forget what you’ve heard —it’s not about basketball, but about therncentral role that a public school should play in the life of a community.rnSEPTEMBER 1998/9rnrnrn