Word: timorous
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...Brunei. But now, global instability and rising demand from India and China have spiked oil prices to over $80 per barrel, and governments are nationalizing major fields from Russia to Venezuela. At the same time, as offshore technology improves, oil firms can hunt in deeper, tougher waters, like the Timor Gap between Australia and East Timor. So the region has exploded with oil fever. Vietnam plans to explore in seven offshore blocks, Malaysia this summer launched the deepwater Kikeh field, and Indonesia expects production from its vast Cepu oil field to start next year. East Timor could earn at least...
...arms deals only stoke fears - and more arms deals. Indonesia's purchases probably will worry Australia, whose naval dominance is critical when Australian forces intervene near its giant neighbor, as in East Timor in 1999. Worse, each step that major countries like Australia, Japan, the U.S. and India take toward an alliance only worries China more, sparking its fears of containment and prodding it to build its own links to Russia, Central Asian nations and Pakistan...
With supporters of the ousted Fretilin party rampaging through the streets, setting homes ablaze and attacking U.N. vehicles, the most urgent priority for East Timor's new government is restoring stability. Yet while the authorities focus on the Fretilin violence, another potential threat continues to lurk in the country's central mountains...
...Australian Defence Force says it is investigating Reinado's claims but will not comment on them until the after-action report on the Same raid is complete. Reinado, who believes he is still being hunted, wants the Australians to leave East Timor. "Australia cannot be an impartial force in this country," he says. If ISF troops attack his men, he warns, they will fight back. "Then it will be worse," he says. "Day after day [the Australians] will have loss of life...
...conceding only that it struggles to control some of its angry supporters. NGO head Samson is unconvinced. "They are worried about what the new government will do," he says. "They are worried that there will be an audit going back five years." It is a sad measure of East Timor's misery that a nation founded on so much promise should so soon be uneasy about its past...