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Portugal is Missing in the Picture
Any book about East Timor should dedicate a chapter to the Portuguese foreign policy about this issue. It was the East Timorese and the Portuguese who kept this question alive when nobody wanted to know. Therefore, explaining and understanding East Timor in the last 25 years must include Portugal. Unfortunately, this is not the case. On the other hand, with one or two exceptions, the chapters do not bring any relevant new information. If you have an average knowledge about this issue, this book will not bring you much insight. Definitely, this is not a must.

Portugal is Missing in the Picture
Any book about East Timor has to dedicate a chapter to the Portuguese foreign policy about this issue. As far as everybody knows, Portugal was the former colonial power wasn't it? Otherwise, explaining and understanding East Timor in the last 25 years will be missing an important actor. Unfortunately, this is the case. On the other hand, with one or two exceptions, the chapters do not bring any relevant new information. Definitely, this is not a must. ... Read more

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Chapters: José Ramos-Horta, Jose Maria Sison, Joaquim Gomes, Fritz Korbach. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jose Maria Sison (born February 8, 1939, Cabugao, Ilocos Sur, Philippines) is a writer and activist who reorganized the Communist Party of the Philippines and added elements of Maoism to its philosophy. Since August 2002, he has been classified as a "person supporting terrorism" by the United States. The European Union's second highest court ruled to delist him as a "person supporting terrorism" and reversed a decision by member governments to freeze assets. A 1959 graduate of the University of the Philippines, Sison studied in Indonesia, before returning to the Philippines to settle as a university professor of literature. In 1964, founded the Kabataang Makabayan or Patriotic Youth. This organization rallied Filipino youth against the Vietnam war, against the Marcos presidency and corrupt politicians. On December 26, 1968, he formed and chaired the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), an organization founded on Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought, stemming from his experience as a youth leader and labor and land reform activist. This is known as the First Great Rectification movement where Sison and other radical youth criticized the existing Party leadership and failure. The reestablished CPP set its general political line as two-stage revolution comprising national-democratic as the first stage then proceeding to the socialist revolution. During this period, Sison went by the nom de guerre of Amado Guerrero, meaning "beloved warrior", under which he published the manifesto Philippine Society and Revolution. In December 2007 the Communist Party of the Philippines commemorated its 39th anniversary. Jose Mar...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1695076 ... Read more

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20 de Maio de 2002: Timor consagra-se o mais jovem país independente do mundo. O destino da nação está finalmente nas mãos do seu povo, ansioso por destrancar a porta para um novo futuro! Antes, depois e durante os últimos 23 meses, muitas foram as barreiras, os desafios, os melhores e piores dias que este povo sedento de paz enfrentou e venceu. Dia-a-dia a coragem de uns, o incentivo de outros e o esforço de todos começam a criar os alicerces para o sucesso da nova nação.A Construção da Nação TimorenseDesafios e Oportunidades abarca as inúmeras intervenções do Primeiro Chefe de Estado da jovem nação, levando o leitor a reflectir sobre os desafios e frustrações do povo timorense. Palavras de ânimo, palavras de força, gritos de luta para enfrentar a corrente do destino ecoam nesta obra, onde estão patentes os discursos e intervenções de Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão à frente da Nação Timorense.O livro vai ser editado em três línguasPortuguês, Tétum e Inglêssendo a edição portuguesa a primeira a ficar disponível, seguida das versões em Inglês e Tétum ainda durante o ano de 2004."Este livro é dedicado ao Povo de Timor-Leste em homenagem aos sacrifícios assumidos em prol da libertação da pátria."Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão O poder dele vem do povo, emana do povo, esse povo que é sempre o último árbitro da verdade.José Ramos-Horta in Prefácio Os desafios são do tamanho do mítico monte Ramelau. As frustrações são profundas como o Mar de Timor. Mas a vontade do nosso povo é legendária e foi ela que alicerçou a nossa luta desigual.José Ramos-Horta in Prefácio ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Finance & Development, published by International Monetary Fund on March 1, 2001. The length of the article is 777 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: How Will the Macroeconomy Be Managed in an Independent East Timor? An East Timorese View.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Author: Jose Ramos-Horta
Publication: Finance & Development (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2001
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Volume: 38Issue: 1Page: 22

Article Type: Brief Article, Statistical Data Included

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Chapters: José Ramos-Horta, Obadele Thompson, Fatima Siad, Aleksandar Radojević, Fernando Chui, Dewi Sukarno, Sanjay Jha, Haitham El Shoumali, Ajay Banga. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 54. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: José Manuel Ramos-Horta (Portuguese pronunciation: ), GCL (born 26 December 1949) is the second President of East Timor since independence from Indonesia, taking office on 20 May 2007. He is a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize and a former Prime Minister, having served from 2006 until his inauguration as President after winning the 2007 East Timorese presidential election. As a founder and former member of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (FRETILIN), Ramos-Horta served as the exiled spokesman for the East Timorese resistance during the years of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975 to 1999). While he has continued to work with FRETILIN, Ramos-Horta resigned from the party in 1988, and has since remained an independent politician. After East Timor achieved independence in 2002, Ramos-Horta was appointed as the country's first Foreign Minister. He served in this position until his resignation on 25 June 2006, amidst political turmoil. On 26 June, following the resignation of Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, Ramos-Horta was appointed acting Prime Minister by the President, Xanana Gusmão. Two weeks later, on 10 July 2006, he was officially sworn in as the second Prime Minister of East Timor. On 11 February 2008, Ramos-Horta was injured when he was shot during an assassination attempt. Of mestiço ethnicity, Ramos-Horta was born in Dili, capital of East Timor, to a Timorese mother and a Portuguese father who had been exiled to what was then Portuguese Timor by the Salazar dictatorship. He was educated in a Catholic mission in the sma...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=49030 ... Read more

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Chapters: George Orwell, Pope John Paul Ii, Claus Schenk Graf Von Stauffenberg, Gerry Adams, Chen Shui-Bian, José Ramos-Horta, Johnny Adair, Tim Westwood, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Bob Marley, Daddy Yankee, Hendrik Verwoerd, Eva Braun, Nino, Bernadette Devlin Mcaliskey, Matt Wiese, Eamonn Magee, Lucas Radebe, Martin Mcgartland, Rudi Dutschke, Bill Ralston, Jackie Mcmullan, Francis Hughes, Billy Mckee, Serge Akakpo, John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney, Frank Gardner, Frank Warren, Kodjovi Obilalé, Massiv, John Ernest Buttery Hotson, Alexis St. Martin, Peter Terry, Charles Hotham Montagu Doughty-Wylie, Mark Haddock, Jacky Imbert, Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg, Queen Komal of Nepal, Ismet Bajramović, Hubert Velud, Gerry Adams, Sr., Charles Harding Smith, Anthony Vivian, 5th Baron Vivian, James Wallace Beaton, Billy Hull, Frederick Fairfax, Nikola Štedul, Henry William Stevens, Carl Walker, Nabil Amr, Eric Glass, Valerie Storie. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 376. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Venerable Pope John Paul II (Latin: , Italian: , Polish: , French: , German: ), born Karol Józef Wojtya (pronounced ; 18 May 1920 2 April 2005) served as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death over 26 years later. His was the second-longest documented pontificate; only Pope Pius IX served longer (St Peter the Apostle is reputed to have served for more than thirty years as the first pontiff; however documentation is too sparse to definitively support this). He has been the only Polish Pope to date, and was the first non-Italian Pope since Dutch Pope Adrian VI in the 1520s. John Paul II has been acclaimed as one of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century. It is widely held that he was instrumental in ending communism i...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23805 ... Read more

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Kapitel: José Ramos-Horta, Marí Bin Amude Alkatiri, Xanana Gusmão, Nicolau Dos Reis Lobato, Estanislau Da Conceição Aleixo Maria Da Silva, Premierminister, António Duarte Carvarino. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão GCL (born José Alexandre Gusmão, on 20 June 1946) is a former militant who was the first President of East Timor, serving from May 2002 to May 2007. He later became the fourth and current Prime Minister of East Timor on 8 August 2007. Gusmão was born to mestiço school teacher parents (of mixed Portuguese-Timorese ancestry) in Manatuto in what was then Portuguese Timor, and attended a Jesuit high school just outside of Dili. After leaving high-school for financial reasons at the age of fifteen, he held a variety of unskilled jobs, while continuing his education at night school. In 1965, at the age of 19, he met Emilia Batista, who was later to become his wife. His nickname, "Xanana", was taken from the musical lyric, "Sha-na-na". In 1966, Gusmão obtained a position with the public service, which allowed him to continue his education. This was interrupted in 1968 when Gusmão was recruited by the Portuguese Army for national service. He served for three years, rising to the rank of corporal. During this time he married Emilia Batista, by whom he had two children, his son Eugenio, and daughter Zenilda. He has since divorced Emilia, and in 2000 he married Australian Kirsty Sword, having sons Alexandre, Kay Olok and Daniel. In 1971, Gusmão completed his national service, his son was born, and he became involved with a nationalist organization headed by José Ramos-Horta. For the next three years he was actively involved in peaceful protests directed at the colonial system. It was in 1974 that a coup in Portugal resulted in the beginning of decolonization for Portuguese Timor, and shortly afterwards the Governor Mário Lemos Pires announced plans to grant the colony independence. Plans were dra...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão GCL (born José Alexandre Gusmão, on 20 June 1946) is a former militant who was the first President of East Timor, serving from May 2002 to May 2007. He later became the fourth and current Prime Minister of East Timor on 8 August 2007. Gusmão was born to mestiço school teacher parents (of mixed Portuguese-Timorese ancestry) in Manatuto in what was then Portuguese Timor, and attended a Jesuit high school just outside of Dili. After leaving high-school for financial reasons at the age of fifteen, he held a variety of unskilled jobs, while continuing his education at night school. In 1965, at the age of 19, he met Emilia Batista, who was later to become his wife. His nickname, "Xanana", was taken from the musical lyric, "Sha-na-na". In 1966, Gusmão obtained a position with the public service, which allowed him to continue his education. This was interrupted in 1968 when Gusmão was recruited by the Portuguese Army for national service. He served for three years, rising to the rank of corporal. During this time he married Emilia Batista, by whom he had two children, his son Eugenio, and daughter Zenilda. He has since divorced Emilia, and in 2000 he married Australian Kirsty Sword, having sons Alexandre, Kay Olok and Daniel. In 1971, Gusmão completed his national service, his son was born, and he became involved with a nationalist organization headed by José Ramos-Horta. For the next three years he was actively involved in peaceful protests directed at the colonial system. It was in 1974 that a coup in Portugal resulted in the beginning of decolonization for Portuguese Timor, and shortly afterwards the Governor Mário Lemos Pires announced plans to grant the colony independence. Plans were drawn up to hold general elections with a view to independence in 1978. During most of 1975 a bitter internal struggle occurred between two rival factions in Portuguese Timor. Gusmão b...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Chapters: Hague Academy of International Law People, José Ramos-Horta, Ted Kennedy, Faith Whittlesey, Harold Hongju Koh, Elihu Root, Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Gonzalo Parra Aranguren, List of Hague Academy of International Law People, Nasim Hasan Shah, Jack Goldsmith, Hisashi Owada, Georg Konrad Morgen, Peter Tomka, Herbert Kraus, John V. Tunney, Curtis Doebbler, Elbridge Durbrow, Frede Castberg, Lazare Kopelmanas, William Deane, Symeon C. Symeonides, Pieter Kooijmans, Francesco Paolo Fulci, Ben Bot, George Grafton Wilson, Fernando María Castiella Y Maíz, Elihu Lauterpacht, Patricia Mcgovern, A. H. M. Moniruzzaman, Howard S. Levie, Roberto Ago, Mohamed Bennouna, Richard M. Mosk, Marcus Daly, Shi Jiuyong, Joseph Sinde Warioba, Wang Tieya, Eelco Van Kleffens, Jamshid Momtaz, Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade, Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Francisco Rezek, Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda, Thomas Mayr-Harting, John Bertrand Conlan, Georges Scelle, Frank Joseph Guarini, Bruno Simma, Emory M. Sneeden, Robert Poydasheff, Assad Kotaite, Raymond Ranjeva, Irma S. Raker, Kamel Morjane, Robert Redslob. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 266. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932 August 25, 2009) was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. First elected to the U.S. Senate in November 1962, he was re-elected nine times and served for 47 years until his death. He was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-serving senator in U.S. history. For many years the most prominent living member of the Kennedy family, he was the last surviving son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, bo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=184136 ... Read more

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Chapters: José Ramos-Horta, Jennifer Zeng, Hakim Taniwal, Boamu Pionga. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: José Manuel Ramos-Horta (Portuguese pronunciation: ), GCL (born 26 December 1949) is the second President of East Timor since independence from Indonesia, taking office on 20 May 2007. He is a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize and a former Prime Minister, having served from 2006 until his inauguration as President after winning the 2007 East Timorese presidential election. As a founder and former member of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (FRETILIN), Ramos-Horta served as the exiled spokesman for the East Timorese resistance during the years of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975 to 1999). While he has continued to work with FRETILIN, Ramos-Horta resigned from the party in 1988, and has since remained an independent politician. After East Timor achieved independence in 2002, Ramos-Horta was appointed as the country's first Foreign Minister. He served in this position until his resignation on 25 June 2006, amidst political turmoil. On 26 June, following the resignation of Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, Ramos-Horta was appointed acting Prime Minister by the President, Xanana Gusmão. Two weeks later, on 10 July 2006, he was officially sworn in as the second Prime Minister of East Timor. On 11 February 2008, Ramos-Horta was injured when he was shot during an assassination attempt. Of mestiço ethnicity, Ramos-Horta was born in Dili, capital of East Timor, to a Timorese mother and a Portuguese father who had been exiled to what was then Portuguese Timor by the Salazar dictatorship. He was educated in a Catholic mission in the small village of Soibada, later chosen by FRETILIN as headquarters after the Indonesia...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=49030 ... Read more

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Chapters: José Ramos-Horta, Xanana Gusmão, Manuel Carrascalão. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: José Manuel Ramos-Horta (Portuguese pronunciation: ), GCL (born 26 December 1949) is the second President of East Timor since independence from Indonesia, taking office on 20 May 2007. He is a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize and a former Prime Minister, having served from 2006 until his inauguration as President after winning the 2007 East Timorese presidential election. As a founder and former member of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (FRETILIN), Ramos-Horta served as the exiled spokesman for the East Timorese resistance during the years of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975 to 1999). While he has continued to work with FRETILIN, Ramos-Horta resigned from the party in 1988, and has since remained an independent politician. After East Timor achieved independence in 2002, Ramos-Horta was appointed as the country's first Foreign Minister. He served in this position until his resignation on 25 June 2006, amidst political turmoil. On 26 June, following the resignation of Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, Ramos-Horta was appointed acting Prime Minister by the President, Xanana Gusmão. Two weeks later, on 10 July 2006, he was officially sworn in as the second Prime Minister of East Timor. On 11 February 2008, Ramos-Horta was injured when he was shot during an assassination attempt. Of mestiço ethnicity, Ramos-Horta was born in Dili, capital of East Timor, to a Timorese mother and a Portuguese father who had been exiled to what was then Portuguese Timor by the Salazar dictatorship. He was educated in a Catholic mission in the small village of Soibada, later chosen by FRETILIN as headquarters after the Indonesian invasio...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=49030 ... Read more

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Chapters: East Timorese Expatriates, José Ramos-Horta, Miro Baldo Bento, João Bosco Cabral. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: José Manuel Ramos-Horta (Portuguese pronunciation: ), GCL (born 26 December 1949) is the second President of East Timor since independence from Indonesia, taking office on 20 May 2007. He is a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize and a former Prime Minister, having served from 2006 until his inauguration as President after winning the 2007 East Timorese presidential election. As a founder and former member of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (FRETILIN), Ramos-Horta served as the exiled spokesman for the East Timorese resistance during the years of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975 to 1999). While he has continued to work with FRETILIN, Ramos-Horta resigned from the party in 1988, and has since remained an independent politician. After East Timor achieved independence in 2002, Ramos-Horta was appointed as the country's first Foreign Minister. He served in this position until his resignation on 25 June 2006, amidst political turmoil. On 26 June, following the resignation of Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, Ramos-Horta was appointed acting Prime Minister by the President, Xanana Gusmão. Two weeks later, on 10 July 2006, he was officially sworn in as the second Prime Minister of East Timor. On 11 February 2008, Ramos-Horta was injured when he was shot during an assassination attempt. Of mestiço ethnicity, Ramos-Horta was born in Dili, capital of East Timor, to a Timorese mother and a Portuguese father who had been exiled to what was then Portuguese Timor by the Salazar dictatorship. He was educated in a Catholic mission in the small village of Soibada, later chosen by FRETILIN as headquarters...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=49030 ... Read more