Word: policarpo
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...very well mean that the Cardinals - or at least the necessary two thirds - were not convinced by the initial choices, and have been forced to look elsewhere. One name that has continued to pop up in the Italian press this week is the Archbishop of Lisbon, Jose da Cruz Policarpo, 69, who could be a compromise candidate, with strong links to both Europe and Latin America...
...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...
...Policarpo claimed to represent East Timorese who believe in peaceful coexistance under an Indonesian government...
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...
...Policarpo said that he had come to the U.S. for the specific purpose of informing the American public and would be in the country for only a few weeks. He said that he is a banker in the Regional Development Bank of East Timor...