11.   Jose Alexandre Gusmao, the East Timorese independence leader, is widely known to Timorese by his pen name, Xanana.

12.   Last week, an independence leader asked the Puerto Rican government for Puerto Rican citizenship.

13.   Later today, the president will meet with Jose Ramos-Horta, an East Timorese independence leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner.

14.   That memorandum, Monteiro said, also had the approval of the Timorese independence leader, Jose Alexandre Gusmao, known to Timorese as Xanana.

15.   The pacifist independence leader was assassinated half a century ago, when Mother Teresa began her work as a tireless comforter of the destitute.

16.   Police blamed the killing of the independence leader on a rival faction that favors uniting Kashmir with Pakistan.

17.   A Bombay court Tuesday rejected a petition asking for police protection to resume a controversial play glorifying the assassin of Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi.

18.   A former Indian prime minister and disciple of independence leader Mohandas Gandhi has died.

19.   A grandson of Mohandas Gandhi has been appointed ambassador to South Africa, where the Indian independence leader began to champion civil rights nearly a century ago.

20.   A Puerto Rican independence leader who renounced his U.S. citizenship faces a court challenge Thursday to his right to vote in island elections.