Word: timorously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
According to a pamphlet distributed at the speech by representatives of the East Timor Action Network of Boston, more than 200,000 East Timorese have lost their lives in the civil war and genocide that ensued...
...Those who earned the right to this award are, in fact, the people of East Timor," he said...