Word: marys
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...APPOINTED. Jos? Ramos Horta, 57, Nobel laureate and East Timor's former Foreign and Trade Minister; as interim Prime Minister, after Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri resigned under pressure over violence in the nation's capital that has killed at least 21; in Dili. Ramos Horta, a founder of the ruling Freitlin party?although no longer a member of it?is widely seen as a unifying candidate who, it is hoped, can quell the political unrest that has rocked the world's newest nation since March...
...RESIGNED. Mari Alkatiri, 57, Prime Minister of East Timor, after clashes between disgruntled soldiers and government loyalists led to the tiny nation's worst violence since its 1999 independence from Indonesia; in Dili. Alkatiri, whom critics allege also hired a hit squad to eliminate his political opponents, agreed to step down after East Timor's widely respected President, Xanana Gusm?o, threatened to resign himself if he did not. "They destroyed Dili town, burned, looted and killed our people," railed Alkatiri while announcing his resignation, "and then they accuse me of being a terrorist...
...claiming they'd been passed over for promotion and unjustly accused of having mounted only half-hearted resistance to Indonesia's 24-year occupation of the former Portuguese colony, which ended in 1999. For four days in late April they demonstrated in Dili. Then, on April 28, Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri ordered the army to break up the protest, which it did with stunning brutality, leaving at least five dead and many more wounded. That worsened longstanding tensions within the Army and police, triggering open rebellion...
...Juggling three mobile phones, Reinado gives orders, takes calls from journalists, and snipes at East Timor's government. Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri is "just a cockroach," he says with a laugh. "He tried to kill me. But I never hide. They know where to find me. I'm waiting for them...
...sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, Mari Oishi, was shot and injured on campus early on the morning of Jan. 15 after walking past what local police have called a failed armed robbery. A stray bullet hit Oishi in her left thigh as an unknown gunman struggled with two men over the keys to a Mercedes-Benz SL-Class Roadster. She was immediately transported to the Penn hospital and was released later that day, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the university’s student paper. Michael Barrett, 31, and Robert Keith, 24, were also shot in the incident. Both...