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Indonesia Invades East Timor Hours After President Ford & Henry Kissinger left Indonesia after Meeting in Jakarta with Indonesian Dictator General Suharto

Indonesia Invades East Timor Hours After President Ford & Henry Kissinger left Indonesia after Meeting in Jakarta with Indonesian Dictator General Suharto

Indonesia invaded East Timor, a small Christian country (predominantly Catholic) and Portugese colony north of Australia rich in oil reserves. East Timor should have won its independence on 28 November 1975 when the majority FRETILIN party (accused of being communist, but never confirmed) declared independence, however an incursion was launched about 3 weeks later, the day after U.S. President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry ...