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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...
Policarpo also questioned Ramos-Horta's urgent request for a United Nations-sponsored national referendum for the area, saying that in the mid-1970s Ramos-Horta's party opposed the idea of such a referendum...
...Ramos-Horta and several audience members questioned the credibility of Policarpo and other hostile questioners who, they said, may be the mouthpieces of the Indonesian government...
...Ramos-Horta also gave praise to Mass. State Sen. Marc Pacheco (D-Taunton) for his efforts in sponsoring a bill in the State Assembly which ensures that state businesses do not make any investments in Indonesia or buy Indonesian products...
Wallen said that she thought Ramos-Horta "was very passionate and very thoughtful and self-controlled...