Word: timorously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instance, opening trade with Indonesia will hardly help the plight of residents of East Timor who face constant discrimination in Indonesian labor markets and civil society. Why should a glut of dollars in the pockets of a nation's wealthy change their attitudes about minorities, or anything else except their opinion of the U.S.? Most of the profits from trade will go to those few Indonesians already in positions of power. President Clinton has repeatedly bashed trickle-down economics in this country, but now he's decided to try it in Indonesia...
...foreign policy has suffered from an indelible stigma. Whenever the United States sends forces abroad as peace-keepers, oil-preservers, or dictator-removers, politicos and pundits with long memories groan about "another Vietnam." Well, there isn't going to be another Vietnam in Bosnia or Somalia or even East Timor--things have changed...
...East Timor declared its Independence from Portugal in 1975 and was invaded by Indonesia less than a month later. Since then, the activists and more than 200,000 East Timorese have been killed either by the Indonesian Army or by the resulting starvation...
...November 12, 1991 more than 200 East Timorese were gunned down by the Indonesian army during a peaceful March for self-determination. Pinto said this event drove him into hiding until he could be smugled out of East Timor by the resistance also sparked that formation of his group, which aims to educate the world about the present East Timorese situation...
When asked about possible benefits of the Indonesian occupation, Pinto said. "We get nothing but guns and death from Indonesia." The group called for the withdrawal of the Indonesian army and advocated a U.N. sanctioned referendum on the future of East Timor...