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Be·lo  (bl, bl), Carlos Felipe Ximenes Born 1948.
East Timorese Roman Catholic bishop. An outspoken critic of Indonesia's invasion and colonization of East Timor, he shared the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize with José Ramos-Horta.


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The reorganization, to occur over the next 12 months, involves consolidating production at existing CNH plants in Curitiba, Belo Horizonte and Piracicabe in Brazil and to close the manufacturing plant in Sorocaba, Brazil.
Independence supporters were not optimistic when the Vatican named Carlos Ximenes Belo as East Timor's Apostolic Administrator in 1983.
In honoring the Timorese laureates, Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta, the Norwegian Nobel Committee issued a blunt attack on the Indonesian government, accusing it of ``systematically oppressing the people'' of East Timor.
 
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