Word: timorously
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...secret agent on a mission that begins in the East Timor jungle. As you run through swamps, dodge land mines and avoid surveillance spotlights, you must elude--or kill--terrorist guards to stay alive. You can jump, crouch, climb and shoot your pistol. Stay in the shadows to avoid detection. Elegant graphics and exciting game play make it a winner...
...before Australia," says Foreign Minister Alexander Downer. "We put Australia's national interest first. Institutions like the U.N. are important - the question is how are you going to relate to them in the national interest." The Howard government committed troops to lead the U.N. peacekeeping effort in East Timor (about 1,000 remain there). But it sees Labor's faith in the U.N. as unrealistic, given the world body's failure to enforce its resolutions on Iraq or bring peace to Rwanda, Kosovo, Bosnia or Sudan. In a post-9/11 world of terrorism, black-market nukes and bioweapons...
...military for the 21st century, Australian and U.S. forces have become increasingly interdependent, sharing intelligence, training, weaponry, technology and communications systems. According to Griffith University's Tow, who last year co-authored a study on the future of the alliance, Australia learned the limits of autonomy in East Timor, where the 1999 peace mission would not have succeeded without U.S. logistics and communications support. A stand-alone security policy, he adds, would be unable "to provide a competent defense even of continental Australia." Neil James, executive director of the Australia Defence Association, estimates that acquiring that capability would double...
...intent on improving its ties with Asian nations and believes Australia can help. The U.S. has listened to Canberra, says historian Edwards, on issues like Indonesia's financial crisis and East Timor. And it welcomed the government's decision to send troops to restore order in the Solomon Islands. In August, Foreign Minister Downer visited North Korea at Washington's request to urge the regime to continue talks on its rogue nuclear program. If the U.S. and China ever reached the brink of war over Taiwan, Australia - with its lucrative financial ties with China - would "be doing everything it could...
...While Australian politicians often talk about "Asia," the region is neither monolithic nor stable. It was uncertainty in the region - including the 1995 collapse of the Keating Labor government's security agreement with Indonesia and the resulting debacle in East Timor - that helped convince Howard to reinvigorate the alliance in the late '90s. "At the end of the day," says Tow, "the U.S. relationship is so fundamental - what alternative does Australia have? Would China be the new great and powerful friend? It doesn't relate to anybody on those terms. Would ASEAN (the Association of South East Asian Nations...