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...Timorese passports, the country is labeled Timor-Leste, "leste" being Portuguese for "east." Many nationalists, however, prefer to call the country not by its English or Portuguese designations, but by its name in Tetum, one of the half-island's 19 local languages: Timor Lorosae. And the Indonesians, whose violent 24-year occupation is believed to have led to the deaths of up to 200,000 East Timorese, still refer to their former 27th province as Timor Timur, often shortened...
...Baghdad; David Satterfield, Rice's special adviser on Iraq, who served in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iraq; Anne Patterson, former ambassador to Colombia, who oversees law-enforcement training in Iraq and Afghanistan; Welch, who was in the U.S. embassy in Islamabad in 1979 when it was seized by a violent mob; Nicholas Burns, Rice's No. 3, a Balkan-wars specialist and the point man for dealing with the Iran nuclear issue; and Christopher Hill, the U.S. envoy for multilateral talks on North Korea...
...Meanwhile, news of the raid sparked violent protests, including an attempt by several hundred people to mass outside the Australian embassy. Demonstrators threw rocks at cars, set tires alight, and burned down several houses, including those of the Attorney-General and relatives of Gusmao . On March 8 Gusmao declared a state of emergency and put local troops back on the streets. Hearing of the development, rebel Nelson Galucho laughed and said: "The country's been in a state of emergency since last year." His leader, he says, has vowed to "liberate" the people of East Timor...
...approval rating is at an all-time low of 34 percent, and it’s pretty clear why. Citizens are disenchanted with the war in Iraq, which will celebrate its four-year anniversary on March 20. Each day, headlines seem to report more American troops lost and more violent sectarian massacres. Democratic presidential candidates speak the voice of the nation in their calls for withdrawal from Iraq...
...little else, President Bush has learned one valuable thing about Latin America since his last visit to the region: how to duck the protests. In 2005, at the Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Bush was greeted by violent demonstrations and angry speeches from leftist leaders like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. But the five countries Bush has chosen for his six-day Latin America tour that starts today in Sao Paulo, Brazil, are led by either kindred conservatives or more moderate leftists. And the venues he's visiting are often far from metropolis hotbeds of anti-yanqui...