Word: prizes
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...despite reports of abuses by Indonesia, East Timor has been a subject mostly for diplomatic specialists. Its exiled representatives looked in vain for support, literally knocking on doors that refused to open. And then last week East Timor was back in the headlines. The committee for the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo gave its coveted award to two men who have never ceased perpetuating their homeland's hope for self-rule. One is Jose Ramos-Horta, 46, an exiled public relations ambassador for East Timor's guerrillas, who is now based in Australia; the other is Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo...
Belo received the news of the prize as he was saying Mass in East Timor, which is more than 90% Catholic and where the church is just about the only intermediary between the government and the cowed populace. In 1989 he fearlessly asked the U.N. to support a referendum in East Timor, and he has criticized Indonesia's policy of importing non-Timorese migrants to the island. After the massacre of some 200 protesters in 1991, Belo loudly called for a commission of inquiry. He has said the Indonesian military had planned, but failed, to assassinate him twice...
...prize is divided--and so are its winners. Meanwhile, a shamed Indonesia remains East Timor's overlord. An agitated Belo asked TIME last week, "Who will be able to expel the Indonesian forces from here...
...their theory been confirmed, but it has blossomed into a thriving branch of research. And last week that trio of chemists--Harold Kroto from Britain's University of Sussex, and Robert Curl and Richard Smalley from Rice University in Houston--were rewarded for their work with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...
...Canadian-born Vickrey, who died while driving to a conference three days after winning the prize, was known for his voracious curiosity and sometimes eccentric behavior. He often roller-skated from Manhattan's 125th Street train station to his classes on the Columbia campus and enjoyed sitting in on colleagues' lectures and asking pointed questions. He was keenly aware of the passage of time. "I have left undone many things that I ought to have done," he once wrote, "and can only hope that there is enough health left in me to make good some of the deficiency...