Timor-Leste

Sorry, away for quite a while.  I've been busy researching Timor-Leste (East Timor).  This has, and will continue to take most of my spare time.  I'll be placing a few paragraphs now and then on what I understand about TL's multiple crises in this blog.  Longer pieces will go elsewhere.  Meanwhile, anyone interested in following roughly what I am doing can visit or subscribe to my east-timor-studies list. 

If anyone reading this blog entry is interested in email exchanges of views, prime sources on contemporary TL, and the like (i.e., collegial research collaboration), I would be very happy to be in direct and frequent contact with you at johnmacdougall@comcast.net.  For easy reference, the blog messages on TL should get coded into a long-delayed new category called Current Affairs, though I'm sure some of you would consider the Screams category more appropriate.