Word: timorously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indonesian army officers have treated East Timor its personal fiefdom over 25 years, and they're not about to let go quietly. Although polling day was peaceful for the most part in Monday's U.N. referendum on independence for territory occupied by Indonesia since 1975, a pro-indepence result could see an escalation in the political violence that claimed dozens of lives in the run-up to the vote. "Anti-independence militias armed and supported by members of the Indonesian military have been simply going out and killing people," says TIME correspondent Massimo Calabresi. The militiamen have warned that...
...House after Republicans indulged in $6 billion worth of one-upsmanship (not soft on defense, they!), some long-delayed hurricane-relief funds for Central America, and a good helping of plain old pork. But add-ons like subsidies for Alaska reindeer farmers, election-monitoring money for elections in East Timor, and an additional $333,000 a year for Tom DeLay's and Dick Gephardt's office expenses weren't enough to scare Clinton...
CONFLICT Annexed in 1975 by Indonesia, East Timor fights for independence...
...What about Rwanda, East Timor, NorthernIreland, and Turkey? What about Sierra Leone,where more people have been killed there in themonth of January than have been killed in Kosovoin the last five years?" he said. "We have nobusiness in Kosovo...
...LOCATION Distance from Washington is relevant but cuts both ways. Fighting in Europe's backyard helps the Kosovars but hurts the Kurds. Living far from the West deprives oppressed East Timor of active foreign support, but in Sri Lanka the secessionist Tamil Tigers wage their war without interference...