Word: timorous
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...face of hostile questioning from an engaged audience, Jose Ramos-Horta, whose peace efforts in East Timor brought him the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, eventually won the hearts of most of his listeners in a speech last night at the ARCO Forum...
Ramos-Horta addressed the topic, "Pragmatism and Morality: The Case of East Timor" before an audience of over 200 people...
...former Portuguese colony located 400 miles northwest of Australia, East Timor--after a time of brief independence--was invaded on Dec. 7, 1975 by the former Dutch colony of Indonesia...
...government has not yet admitted the extent of its involvement in allowing Indonesia to ravage its neighbor nor issued a coherent policy for moving East Timor back to self-determination. In fact, Indonesia is an even closer ally to the U.S. today because of its thriving economy and open markets than it was under Ford's tenure. The U.S. should be one of the leaders in exerting world pressure on Indonesia, even if only for moral reasons...
...East Timor's situation seems so hopeless now that it is difficult to determine what the U.S. could or should do. But Bishop Belo has pointed the way to a sensible beginning. In his editorial, he called for "the release of East Timorese political prisoners, a step that could renew hopes for peace and and help the next round of United Nations-sponsored talks...