August 3, 2001

East Timor Emerges From Indonesia's Grip With Scars and a New University

By BURTON BOLLAG

Instructors and students create a new institution from the ashes of two devastated ones

Indonesian soldiers had come looking for Francisco Miguel Martins in the morning. Vigilantes equipped by the army, who were torching houses and shooting people, were looking for him too.

So the scholar hurriedly wrapped up his computer and television and buried them in the yard. Then he grabbed his diplomas, packed milk powder for his baby daughter, and ran for the hills with his wife and a

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