Word: timorously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, why not? For that matter, why not independent Kurdistan? Or Chechnya or East Timor or Quebec? Once you start tinkering with global cartography, everyone wants his say. The unintended consequences of malleable borders scare away all but the most arrogant of statesmen. Yet Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sounded ready to try it last week: "Great nations who understand the importance of sovereignty at various times cede various portions of it in order to achieve some better good for their country...
...would like to find some way] to allowIndonesia to disengage from East Timor with honorand dignity," he said...
...there a sense of decency, of moral courage[in the West] to realize the wrongs done to thepeople of East Timor?" he asked...
Speaking after Ramos-Horta, State Rep. AntonioCabral (D-New Bedford), author of House bill 4575,which would restrict investment in Indonesia,urged students to write to their staterepresentative to express concern over thesituation in East Timor and to support the bill...
James A. Colbert '02 said he "was unaware ofthe situation in East Timor [and] this speechhelped me get a sense of what was happeningthere...