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...Oslo gave its coveted award to two men who have never ceased perpetuating their homeland's hope for self-rule. One is Jose Ramos-Horta, 46, an exiled public relations ambassador for East Timor's guerrillas, who is now based in Australia; the other is Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, 48, the Roman Catholic bishop who resides in East Timor. While the award spotlights a neglected conflict, the world is divided about what to do about East Timor. Belo and Ramos-Horta certainly...
...Belo received the news of the prize as he was saying Mass in East Timor, which is more than 90% Catholic and where the church is just about the only intermediary between the government and the cowed populace. In 1989 he fearlessly asked the U.N. to support a referendum in East Timor, and he has criticized Indonesia's policy of importing non-Timorese migrants to the island. After the massacre of some 200 protesters in 1991, Belo loudly called for a commission of inquiry. He has said the Indonesian military had planned, but failed, to assassinate him twice...
...Nobel Prize was awarded to Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor's Roman Catholic Bishop; and Jose Ramos-Horta, an exiled publicist who had ties to the island's independence movement...
...month- old baby. But when his mother, Luciene das Dores, unwraps the snug cover, the sight is shocking: Rafael has no arms or legs. "I got very upset and started to cry when I first saw him," says Das Dores, 23, a part-time cleaning woman who lives in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. "When I saw him with only a head and a torso, I was devastated. I wanted to kill myself." She could not help feeling guilty: unaware that she might hurt her baby, she had taken the powerful sedative thalidomide during her pregnancy...
...Belo owns several television stations, inaddition to the Dallas paper and The Post ownsNewsweek magazine. Graham and Decherd were bothpresidents of the Crimson. They co-chaired of arecent capital campaign for the paper which raisedmore than $2 million