Word: timorously
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...dressing and fetching water as the day's first lilac light seeps across the sky. As Dili wakes around them to a chorus of roosters, Jos? and Dilia Amaral hurry through their morning chores. Today they have somewhere special to go. Today is Aug. 30, the day of East Timor's first democratic elections, and when the Amarals arrive at the local school soon after sunrise to vote, there's already a growing queue. "It's the start of something new," says Jos?. The morning is humid and the wait will be long, but Jos? is smiling. After all, this...
...like Partido Democratico, may yet chip away at Fretilin's vote. P.D. draws much of its support from young East Timorese attracted to a new generation of leaders like party president Fernando de Araujo, who was jailed for student activism in the 1990s. De Araujo says democracy in East Timor needs more than one strong party: "Not everyone involved in the struggle was with Fretilin...
...heavy heat of election eve, workers continued laying floor tiles at the new National Council Hall, where the leaders of independent East Timor will sit under brightly colored traditional tais cloths. With little political experience, and a winding down of the U.N. and international presence that has overseen the reconstruction effort so far, they can expect massive tasks?and expectations. "Independence will mean nothing, and all the sacrifices and deaths and suffering will be in vain, if, in 10 to 15 years we do not improve a little the living conditions of our people," says Xanana Gusm?o, the former resistance...
...Democracy is still young in East Timor, but on election day it passed its first test. By the time voting ended, the gold light of the day had slipped from the sky. Cooking smells floated on the air, people sat on street corners and radios played. Jos? and Dilia Amaral put their children to bed. It was so peaceful in Dili that it seemed the events of the day were an ordinary part of life. Which, of course, is just the way it should...
...TIME: Are you worried that TNI (Indonesia's army) might return to East Timor with the aim of retaking the country? Gusm?o: I don't believe TNI will. The militias, yes, they could come (and) infiltrate. But in my perception, TNI is already going toward the right way. East Timor is an international issue now. If the TNI were to come again, it would be suicide. I don't believe Mega (Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri) would allow this. I don't believe the generals would allow this...