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East Timor declared its Independence from Portugal in 1975 and was invaded by Indonesia less than a month later. Since then, the activists and more than 200,000 East Timorese have been killed either by the Indonesian Army or by the resulting starvation...

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: Panel Discusses East Timor | 4/9/1993 | See Source »

Presenting whites or any other racial group as anathema to Islam implies that it is a racially exclusive faith. This flat-out contradicts current global demographics. Muslims are found everywhere, from Bosnia to China. The country with the largest number of Muslims is not Saudi Arabia, it is Indonesia. Anyone who claims that Islam belongs to only one ethnic group ignores the vast majority of Muslims in the world today...

Author: By Mohammed Asmal, | Title: Misrepresenting Islam | 3/12/1993 | See Source »

...store's buyer travels to countries asdiverse as India, Indonesia, Czechoslovakia, thePhillipines and China, as well as to a number ofAfrican nations. The buyer's finds--whose pricesstart at around 50 cents--are made of glass,porcelain, gold, silver, wood, plastic andsemi-precious stones in every imaginable shade andcolor...

Author: By Ishaan Seth, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Bead Shop Opens On Church St. | 10/2/1992 | See Source »

...wars ever since. Possibly the deadliest one within the past decade has been the insurrection of Hindu Tamil groups against the Buddhist Sinhalese in Sri Lanka. The Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace counts, among many others, six separate conflicts in India and three each in Burma and Indonesia in which guerrilla groups are seeking independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Splinter, Splinter, Little State | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

...time. A separate study published in the British journal Lancet predicts that smoking-related disorders -- chiefly cancer, heart disease, stroke and chronic lung disease -- will kill 1 in 5 people living in the industrialized world. The situation is likely to grow even worse in developing countries like China and Indonesia, where about 70% of men smoke, as cigarette manufacturers make up for falling U.S. demand by seeking new markets overseas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kicking The Habit | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

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