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...Indonesian soldiers gun down hundreds of Timorese protesters in Dili's Santa Cruz Cemetery. Footage of the incident broadcast around the world galvanizes international opinion against the occupation...
...Reinado's men deny shooting first, saying a machine gun in the helicopter fired into the house, forcing them outside. Ramos-Horta has claimed that one or more of the rebels fired at the approaching soldiers and were shot down. Barros and other residents say they heard pistol shots before the heavier weapons began firing...
...Nelson Galucho, who was stationed in the compound's garden, says Reinado did not give the order to shoot until another rebel, Deolindo Barros, was killed. But less than 30 minutes after the gun battle began, the Australians-for reasons as yet unknown-stopped firing and pulled back, allowing Reinado and his surviving men to escape through the thick rainforest on the western side of the hill. Behind them they left the bodies of Barros, Natalino Pereira, Maranes Henrique and Calisto Tilman. The body of a fifth, unidentified man was found two days after the raid, but it was unclear...
Recent history makes the UC’s inaction all the more perplexing. Last November, a small number of representatives jammed through legislation that allowed the UC to fund special shuttles from the Quad to Harvard Square on the morning of the Harvard-Yale football game. Despite resistance from gun-shy representatives, the service operated successfully. In January, the UC voted down a proposal to buy back used PRS clickers and re-sell them at cost, to reduce prices for students who end up in courses that require the expensive devices. A number of frustrated UC representatives ultimately...
...such “cutesy” scene, a disruptive student annoyed a group of studiers around a table in the library. The scene froze and ostensibly moved into Cutmore-Scott’s conscience, as he got up and pulled a gun on the disruptive student, then sat back down before the scene unfroze...