Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste see East Timor .
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East Timor activists win Nobel Prize. (News)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 10/30/1996; 700+ words
; ...and an exiled political activist from East Timor were chosen to receive the 1996 Nobel...the struggle by primarily Catholic East Timor to gain its independence from Indonesia...with Jose Ramos-Horta, 51, who served as East Timor's foreign minister prior to Indonesia...
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Timor oil pressure: independence comes at a high price. (East Timor).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: New Internationalist; 6/1/2002; ; 525 words
; ...outstanding victory for self-determination in East Timor. But in the world's newest nation, the...end to Indonesian occupation in 1999, East Timor's economy has been reliant on donations...international donors are being asked by the East Timor Government to save the country from ...
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The right discovers East Timor. (concern for Timorese people used as a political weapon)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: The Progressive; 5/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...champions of human rights for the people of East Timor, whose plight had until then gone unnoticed...column on the subject, Safire described East Timor as a human-rights hellhole, this in the...Administration lose interest in labor abuses in East Timor, Safire fumed. Having, like so ...
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East Timor, the U.N. system, and enforcing non-recognition in international law.
Magazine article from: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...the state of Indonesia to hold title to East Timor presents a vivid and important example...Article concludes with a discussion of the East Timor case, in which the International Court...non-recognition regarding the status of East Timor. Nonetheless, the Article speculates...
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AUSTRALIA'S ROLE IN EAST TIMOR.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...The foremost of these was Indonesia's incorporation of East Timor in 1975. On December 7, 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor and seized the capital Dili. Jakarta then declared East Timor to be the 27th province of Indonesia, a claim which was...
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FREEING EAST TIMOR.(Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 1/1/2001; ; 604 words
; The Crossing. A Story of East Timor. Luis Cardoso. Granta Books. [pound...1-86207-352-X. Indonesia annexed East Timor by force in 1975-76, when the Portuguese...Independente) struggled for a free East Timor. Indonesia was not prepared to accept...
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Voices raised here can help East Timor rebuild.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 4/27/2001; 487 words
; The people of East Timor need the opportunity to develop their...military, inflicted mayhem throughout East Timor, burning and pillaging homes, running...human rights violations committed in East Timor, the current suspension of all military...
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The blessed curse: Quinton Temby exposes the negotiations to pipe oil and gas away from East Timor--and the profit and jobs that flow away with them.(Oil Pipelines / Politics)
Magazine article from: New Internationalist; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...natural gas reserves in the Timor Sea near East Timor takes off, the Government hopes that...interest will be Australia's. What then of East Timor? Australia's northern neighbour is indeed...processing and then shipped to Japan for sale. East Timor will receive about three billion US ...
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Orchestrated chaos.(hidden genocide by Indonesia against East Timor has become less hidden)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 9/22/1999; 623 words
; ...the magazine's cover said Slaughter in East Timor. But the issue was dated 1979, not 1999...Unfortunately, what has been happening in East Timor this month has been going on in varying...many thousands into hiding or exile, East Timor had lost almost a third of its populace...
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EAST TIMOR: ON THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; EAST Timor will become the 190th member of the United Nations...United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) and there is a Cabinet of the Transitional Government in East Timor. The East Timorese are almost free at last...
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East Timor
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
or Timor-Leste , Tetum Timor Lorosae, republic, officially Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (2002 est. pop. 800,000), 5,950 sq mi (15,410 sq km), in the Lesser Sundas...
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Timor
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...easternmost of the Lesser Sundas, in the Malay Archipelago. Timor is divided politically between Indonesia and East Timor (Timor-Leste). The island is long, narrow, and almost wholly mountainous. Rice, coconuts, and coffee are grown, and stretches of...
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Gusmão, José Alexandre
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
...journalist, and went to Australia to work for the East Timorese independence movement, the Frente Revolucionára do Timor Leste-Independente (Fretlin). Following the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975, he became Fretlin's military commander...
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Employment at the UN
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of Nations
...Comoros, Kiribati, Liechtenstein, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, S ã o Tom é and Principe, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, and the United Arab Emirates). The global gender distribution of Secretariat staff showed an almost evenly...
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