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VOLUNTEER US DOCTOR ORDERED OUT OF EAST TIMOR

DILI, East Timor, May 15 (Reuters) - A U.S. doctor working  as a volunteer
at  a Catholic clinic in East Timor was ordered  out of the troubled
territory on Saturday because he was working  on a tourist visa,
immigration officials said.  

Doctor Dan Murphy was put aboard a Jakarta-bound commercial  flight a day
after pro-Jakarta groups issued a statement urging  Indonesian authorities
to deport him. Loyalist groups accuse  Murphy of supporting the
independence cause.  

Murphy has worked at Dili's Motael clinic for six months.  

Many victims of the recent campaign of terror waged by the  loyalist
militias have sought treatment at the clinic, which is  the only real
alternative to the Indonesian-run military  hospital in Dili.  

Other foreigners, including an Australian doctor, also help  at the clinic.  

Murphy would not comment as he arrived at Dili's Komoro  airport, except to
say he planned to renew his visa.  

It was not immediately clear if Murphy would have to leave  Indonesia. 

Pro-Jakarta militias have killed dozens of civilians in a  rising campaign
of violence and intimidation since Jakarta said  it would let East Timorese
choose between independence and  autonomy within Indonesia in a U.N.-run
vote on August 8.  

Indonesia invaded the former Portuguese territory in 1975  and annexed it
the following year. But its rule of the eastern  half of Timor island has
never been recognised by the United  Nations or most of the international
community.

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