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    10 Years After Independence, East Timor Still Rebuilding

    Nov 12, 2009 05:00 AM EST

    ... Flanked by dignitaries from around the world stood Xanana Gusmao. Once a resistance fighter, he is now East Timor's prime minister, and Jose Ramos-Horta, who lived for years in exile lobbying for freedom for his country. Today, he is the president. JOSE RAMOS-HORTA: I have enjoyed it ...

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    East Timor President Critically Wounded in Attack

    Feb 11, 2008 10:20 PM EST

    ... Domingos da Camara told news organizations rebel leader Alfredo Reinado and one of his men were killed in the attack on the home of Ramos Horta, while one of the president's guards also died. The manager of the Royal Darwin Hospital said Ramos Horta, 58, had been transfused with ...

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    Oliphant and Lowry Discuss War in Iraq, Karl Rove's Statement About Liberals

    Jun 24, 2005 04:00 AM EST

    ... and are looking for some changes in our approach that don't have a partisan tinge to them. And the big question, I think, on Tuesday night is whether the president is just hortatory or whether he's also realistic and perhaps ready to announce some tweaking of our policy.

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    Celebration, Challenges Welcome New East Timor

    May 20, 2002 04:50 PM EST

    ... the profits, is expected to be worth $7 billion over the next 20 years. Although the country faces critical challenges, new Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta, a 1996 Nobel Peace Prize winner, told Reuters he's confident East Timor will weather the storms to come. "So far we have disproved ...

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    East Timor Election Passes Peacefully

    Aug 30, 2001 04:30 PM EST

    ... bloody 1999 end to its 24 years as an Indonesian territory, say 93 percent of East Timorese voters headed to the polls today. Jose Ramos-Horta, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and longtime East Timorese independence leader, applauded his people's efforts. "My work for 24 years is done," he ...

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    East Timor to Hold First Free Elections

    Aug 29, 2001 07:00 PM EST

    ... in tomorrow's vote. National figures including rebel leader Xanana Gusmao, widely expected to become East Timor's president, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos Horta and U.N. chief administrator Sergio Vieira de Mello have toured the countryside to drum up voters and encourage partisans not to resort to ...

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