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...woman in black is waiting for him. Xanana Gusmao, East Timor's poet-revolutionary and de facto leader, is working his way through a crowd of admirers. When he reaches her, she throws her arms around him and sobs uncontrollably on his shoulder. Her husband and brother were killed by the Indonesian-backed militia last September--what should she do with her five children? Gusmao holds her for a very long time, all the while talking in a low, soothing voice. Then he reaches up and gently wipes tears from the woman's face, kisses her on both cheeks...
...homes are still charred remnants of the militia's rampage six months ago. Virtually everybody has a tale of torture, rape or murder. But Gusmao has come to them as savior and healer. After 500 years of Portuguese colonization and 24 more of Indonesian occupation, the people of East Timor now revel in one man's promise of freedom from fear...
...come to 850,000 people living on half an island a thousand miles from nowhere? Sure enough, after the vote, the rebuffed Indonesian troops killed, burned and looted all they could on their way home. A graffito they left on the walls of Dili promised that A FREE EAST TIMOR WILL EAT STONES. Some 1,000 East Timorese died, and more than three-quarters of the population fled their homes, according to U.N. estimates. East Timor joined the world's list of nations at the very bottom: the World Bank estimated per capita GDP at $240, on a par with...
...existed. Exuding the authority of Nelson Mandela and the charisma of Che Guevara, Gusmao has been traveling the country spreading his vision of the future. "All of us must let go of the bad things they have done to us," he said in his first speech after returning to Timor in October, "because the future is ours." Timorese may be hungry, but for the first time they are learning to stand on their own feet. "The man is shaping the nation," says Father Filomeno Jacob, a Jesuit priest in Dili who worked secretly with the resistance beginning in the 1980s...
...Wahid's order to step down as minister for security, was summarily suspended from the cabinet Sunday, even though the president had indicated only a day earlier that the general could remain in office pending the outcome of an official investigation into his role in last year's East Timor violence. The standoff had fueled rumors of a coup against Wahid, who had asked for the resignation of Wiranto - the military leader who engineered the ouster of former dictator Suharto - while on a two-week world tour pitching Indonesia to foreign investors. But Wahid appears to have moved skillfully...