Word: timorously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recently argued with a Boston public high school teacher about the importance of American students, and especially citizens, possessing an awareness of international affairs. "Does it really matter to us what is going on in Kosovo or East Timor?" the teacher asked. The teacher decried the amount of American tax dollars devoted to supporting corrupt governments, sponsoring American military campaigns in other sovereign states or maintaining impotent international institutions such...
...Good Friday peace agreement, committee members could be forgiven for casting a skeptical eye over 1999's other front-runners: U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan may be the world's preeminent peacemaker, but he was left flailing helplessly on the sidelines as the Kosovo conflict took shape and East Timor descended into anarchy. Similarly, U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke's previous efforts in the Balkans may have paled in light of the Kosovo war. President Clinton's peacemaking centerpiece, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, has been an underwhelming success, and he's been more of a warrior than a peacemaker over...
...shocks me that in response to a question regarding U.S. intervention in East Timor [WORLD, Sept. 13], Defense Secretary William Cohen had the nerve to proclaim that "the U.S. cannot be and should not be viewed as the policeman of the world" and that the new hot spot is not in the "vital interest" of the U.S. This from the man who only months ago was advancing the Clinton policy that we all had a moral obligation to help the Kosovar Albanians against the oppressive Serbian regime. Perhaps U.S. motivations were not so humanitarian as claimed. ROBERT C. MULLINS Geneva...
After Rwanda and Kosovo, another dark page of modern history is being written in East Timor by the Indonesian army. It's a shame the international community did not react faster in condemning Indonesia and preventing the genocide, which has been ongoing since the mid-'70s in East Timor. Above all political and economic considerations, the international community should never forget that the brave people of East Timor are struggling (and dying) for something that is so dear to all of us: freedom. MIGUEL LUCAS Lisbon...
...Number of U.S. troops currently helping with logistics in East Timor...