Word: timorously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jose Ramos-Horta, an exiled leader of the East Timor independence movement and 1996 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, urged the United States to help the people of East Timor in their struggle against Indonesian occupation before an audience of about 45 students and Faculty members at Boylston Hall yesterday evening...
...Ramos-Horta, who was awarded Harvard's Gleitsman International Activist Award in 1995, was introduced by Dr. S. Allen Counter, chair of the Harvard Foundation, as the "most prominent East Timorese in exile" and someone who has "had a central role in advancing East Timor's freedom struggle...
Ramos-Horta predicted that with the overthrow of President Suharto, who "for nearly 30 years was the darling of every Western country," East Timor's "independence will come in the next two to three years whether the United States likes...
Ramos-Horta accused the United States and other developed countries of supporting Indonesia's repression in East Timor...
Rejecting [Indonesian President] B. J.Habibie's recent offer of autonomy for East Timorin exchange for United Nations' recognition ofIndonesian sovereignty over the territory,Ramos-Horta ruled out attaching any conditions toEast Timor's autonomy...