Word: pintos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country young people mourned. "I was surprised at how surprised I was -- how much it affected me," notes Paul Lauth, 25, a Miami courier. "His acting was natural, unaffected, real." Some regretted the loss of great Phoenix roles: "I felt he got cheated and I got cheated," says John Pinto, 25, of Chicago. Other fans suspended belief. "I was waiting for him to come back to life," says Gabrielle Brechner, 17, a senior at Manhattan's Dalton School, "the way they always do in the movies." The shock arose less from the apparent stupidity of Phoenix's death than from...
...Pinto said one third of the East Timorese people had died in the strife and starvation that followed the Indonesian invasion...
Constancto Pinto, secretary of the Executive Committee of the National Council of Maubere Resistance (CNRM) characterized the atrocities as "proportionally worse than the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia...
...November 12, 1991 more than 200 East Timorese were gunned down by the Indonesian army during a peaceful March for self-determination. Pinto said this event drove him into hiding until he could be smugled out of East Timor by the resistance also sparked that formation of his group, which aims to educate the world about the present East Timorese situation...
When asked about possible benefits of the Indonesian occupation, Pinto said. "We get nothing but guns and death from Indonesia." The group called for the withdrawal of the Indonesian army and advocated a U.N. sanctioned referendum on the future of East Timor...