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Suharto meets East Timor Nobel winner
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The Independent - London
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October 16, 1996
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Dili - President Suharto of Indonesia met East Timor's Nobel
prize-winning bishop yesterday and defended his rule in the
territory but never mentioned the 21-year fight to crush its
independence movement.
The President, visiting East Timor to inaugurate a giant statue
of Jesus Christ as a gesture of religious tolerance, shook hands
with Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo and took a helicopter ride
with him. But the bishop said later that the two men spoke little
and the president did not mention the Nobel Peace Prize that he
shist aspirations.
President Suharto, who ordered the 1975 invasion, was driven
from the airport through streets ...
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