Word: horta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jose Ramos-Horta, an exiled leader of the East Timor independence movement and 1996 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, urged the United States to help the people of East Timor in their struggle against Indonesian occupation before an audience of about 45 students and Faculty members at Boylston Hall yesterday evening...
...Ramos-Horta, who was awarded Harvard's Gleitsman International Activist Award in 1995, was introduced by Dr. S. Allen Counter, chair of the Harvard Foundation, as the "most prominent East Timorese in exile" and someone who has "had a central role in advancing East Timor's freedom struggle...
...Ramos-Horta began by discussing how much had changed in East Asia and Indonesia recently...
...Ramos-Horta predicted that with the overthrow of President Suharto, who "for nearly 30 years was the darling of every Western country," East Timor's "independence will come in the next two to three years whether the United States likes...
Wallen said that she thought Ramos-Horta "was very passionate and very thoughtful and self-controlled...