BALLOT ON EAST TIMOR THREATENED BY VIOLENCE.(News) From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: July 7, 1999 | COPYRIGHT 1999 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Citing a surge in violence in East Timor and attacks on U.N. personnel, the United Nations warned yesterday of another possible delay in staging a ballot on the future of the troubled territory.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has already pushed back the date of the ballot from Aug. 8 to Aug. 21 or 22 because the security situation hadn't improved enough to start registering voters.

Yesterday, one of Annan's top political advisers, Alvaro de Soto, told the Securi...