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Subject: Remember Stanley Roth? /Arco sponsors DEA Clinton strategy 1997

Two years ago,  at an Arco forum (Arco was still investing in Burmses
oil and gas)
Also see posting on Roth, dated 1997

February 11, 1997
(202) 395-6618

  WHITE HOUSE DRUG POLICY DIRECTOR MCCAFFREY TO ADDRESS HARVARD'S
KENNEDY
                           SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT
                  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1997; 8:00 P.M.
                        ARCO FORUM OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
                    JOHN F. KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT
                      79 JFK STREET; CAMBRIDGE, MASS
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(WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- Barry R. McCaffrey, Director of the Office of
National Drug Control Policy, will address the ARCO Forum at the Kennedy
School of Government on Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at 8:00 p.m.
The address, entitled "Focusing on America's Youth: The 1997 National
Drug
Control Strategy", previews the 1997 National Drug Control Strategy,
which
the President will release at the end of February. The Strategy offers a
comprehensive, balanced approach for reducing demand for illegal drugs
and
decreasing their availability. In addition, Director McCaffrey will
discuss
topical domestic and international drug policy issues.
The ARCO Forum is Harvard's premier arena for political, speech,
discussion, and debate. Approximately 300-400 Harvard students, faculty,
and members of the community are expected to attend. Director McCaffrey
will be introduced by Professor Phil Heyman, Harvard Law School and
Kennedy
School of Government. Mark Moore, Professor of Criminal Justice Policy
and
Management at the Kennedy School and Deborah Prothrow-Smith, Assistant
Dean
of Government and Community Programs and Professor of Public Health
Practice at the Harvard School of Public Health, will offer remarks
after
the Director's speech. A question and answer period will immediately
follow.


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re ROTH 1997
[Asia-HR-Alert] Re: ETAN: Alert - Oppose S. Roth Nomination
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yETAN: Alert - Oppose S. Roth Nomination

>From:Charles Scheiner [SMTP:cscheiner@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:Wednesday, January 22, 1997 2:18 AM
Subject:ETAN Alert: Oppose S. Roth Nomination

ACTION ALERT:
OPPOSE NOMINATION OF STANLEY ROTH TO BE
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR ASIA

>From the East Timor Action Network,  January 21, 1997
         P.O. Box 1182, White Plains NY 10602
         Ph.914-428-7299, fax 914-428-7383 etan-us@xxxxxxxxxxx

Washington circles are floating Stanley Roth as a likely candidate to be
the next U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Asia, replacing the
outgoing Winston Lord.

Stanley Roth, who has been one of the Suharto's regime's strongest
supporters in Washington, would further weaken the Clinton
administration's already tepid policy toward East Timor. In the wake
of the "Indogate" scandal, his appointment would verify that Indonesian
corporate campaign contributors are getting what they pay for.

Stanley Roth's record has consistently placed trade and friendship with
Suharto and his army above human rights concerns. He will probably do
the same if he becomes the Assistant Secretary of State for Asia, the
key
position in setting U.S.-Indonesia policy.

Please contact the White House, your Senators, and your Congressional
representatives IMMEDIATELY to express your concern about the
possibility of Roth being in this important position. The time to
prevent his nomination is NOW, before it is announced.

Background on Stanley Roth

For many years, Roth served as chief foreign policy staffer for Rep.
Stephen
Solarz (Chair of the Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee in the House
of Representatives until 1993), and Roth's friendship with Suharto
government
officials dates from this time. After the 1991 Dili Massacre, in which
over 250 unarmed East Timorese protestors were gunned down with
U.S.-supplied weapons, Roth was asked if the U.S. would consider
reducing
arms sales. He said this could only be considered after Indonesia staged
_another_ massacre.

When Solarz lost his Congressional seat, Roth moved over to the
Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asian
and Pacific Affairs. According to "Counterpunch" (Feb. 1994):

   "Roth has had close personal friendships with top Indonesian
officials
   since the late 1970s, when he visited the country at the invitation
of the
   Jakarta-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, an
   intelligence front for the dictatorship. He's said to be particularly
   tight with Yusuf Wanandi, a top official at the CSIS who played a key
role
   in secretly lining up U.S. support for the invasion of East Timor."

Roth led the Pentagon's campaign to defeat the 1993 Feingold Amendment,
which would have conditioned U.S. arms sales to Indonesia on human
rights
improvements in East Timor.

In 1994, he went to the National Security Council as senior director for
Asia. In March 1995, he was interviewed by the Voice of America about
the
impact of the new Republican majority in Congress on Asia policy:

   "The continued high level visibility and attention in the congress to
   developments in East Timor will continue. I think that I get more

letters
   on East Timor in my job at the White House than any other country in
Asia.
   A number of senators and congressmen follow it very closely, and it
is an
   area where continuing ongoing human rights problems do jeopardize the
   relationship, do give Indonesia somewhat of a black eye in (damage)
its
   reputation in the United States, and do affect the relationship. And
so
   it's an area where we do have to continue working on."

Nevertheless, he continued to oppose every move to sanction Indonesia
over its human rights record in East Timor.

Roth left the NSC and is now at the U.S. Institute of Peace. However, in
an October 1996 article in the Washington Post, he was frank about the
Clinton administration's (and his own) priorities: 'The "driving
dynamic"
in policy toward Indonesia was Washington's desire "not to totally screw
up the trade relationship" while keeping up demands for improvement in
the
human rights situation.'

WHAT YOU CAN DO

Time is of the essence.

* Contact the administration urging them not to nominate Stanley Roth as
  Assistant Secretary of State for Asia, but rather to select someone
with
  a commitment to making human rights a priority in U.S. foreign
po