Riverside, Calif., April 20, 1999-- Jose Ramos-Horta, co-winner of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize and an international spokesman for East Timorese Independence, will speak at an assembly at La Sierra University on Thursday, April 22 at 10 a.m. The assembly will take place in the La Sierra University Church located on the corner of Sierra Vista Ave. and Pierce St. Horta, an exile from his country, has spent 22 years denouncing the illegal annexation of his homeland by Indonesia. Admission is free.

# # #