The Economist (US), September 30th, 1989
No time for Timorousness
POPE JOHN PAUL is no stranger to explosive situations, but one that awaits him on his trip to Asia from October 6th to 16th will demand even more sensitive handling than most. The minefield is East Timor, a former Portuguese possession annexed by Indonesia in 1976 in the wake of Portugal's 1974 revolution.
Three-quarters of East Timor's 700,000 people are Roman Catholic. Most are opposed to Indonesian rule, some of them fighting a guerrilla war which obliges the Indonesian government to keep an army on the island. Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo sent a letter to the Uni...
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