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Domm, Robert 278, 321

dos Anjos, Cacildo 280

dos Anjos, Celestino 238–9, 280

dos Anjos, Virgilio 238–9

dos Santos, José Eduardo 226

Dowell, Pat 348

DPPU
see
Displaced Persons Protection Unit

Draft Convention on Yugoslavia
215

Dubai Arms Fair 156

Dub
č
ek, Alexander 396

Dudman, Richard 453

Dulles, Alan 351

Dulles, John Foster 516–17

Dunn, James 233–4, 243, 321

Timor: A People Betrayed
244, 248–9, 250, 265, 268, 269, 284

Durham, County:

‘D' villages 30

collieries 46–56

Eagleburger, Lawrence 180, 227

Eanes, Antonio, President of Portugal 260

Easington Colliery, Durham 46, 53–4, 55

East, Roger 234, 267, 282–3

Eastern Europe (
see also
Russia):

the media and 63, 65

East Timor:

animist religion 239, 240

American involvement and policies in 234, 235, 250–1, 252, 254–5, 256, 257, 294–5, 297–301, 318

atrocities and genocide in 6, 12, 233–5, 249, 253–4, 262, 264, 272, 276, 278–81, 285–6, 287–8, 294–6, 298–9, 317–18, 338; see also Dili massacres; murder of journalists (
below
)

Australian policy and 12, 234, 235, 236–9, 243–5, 247–9, 251–2, 257–8, 260–2, 264, 265, 267, 268–70, 283, 288–9, 311–17, 535

the author's visit and film (
Death of a Nation
) 260–1, 262–3, 271–93, 314–16, 322

and British arms sales to Indonesia 258–9, 301–4, 306–11, 319

British policy and 250, 255, 269, 296, 301, 304–6, 319–20

Chinese population decimated 253

civil war (1975) 249–50, 264, 266

Dili massacre (Santa Cruz cemetery, 1991) 236, 260, 262, 263, 264, 272, 290–2, 295, 296, 312, 313, 314–16, 535

employment in 274, 275

and ‘family planning programmes' 284–5

famine in 262, 274

and Fretilin 239, 242–3, 249–52, 265, 266, 267, 273, 274, 276, 277, 279, 288–9

independence movement 241–2, 249;
see also
Fretilin (
above
)

Indonesian invasion and occupation of 233–6, 238–9, 241, 242–3, 247, 249, 250, 251–2, 262, 266, 271–86, 297–8

Javanese in 274, 275, 284

languages 239, 241, 242, 275, 320

media ban in 234–7, 262, 263, 264, 297

murder of journalists in 234, 249, 264, 265–70, 273, 282–3

Pope John Paul II's visit to (1989) 270, 272, 290

Portuguese administration and 240, 241, 247, 249, 250, 252, 256–7, 258, 259–60, 276, 277, 282, 318–20

resistance movement 236, 242
n
, 265, 273, 278–80, 304, 316, 320–2,
see also
Fretilin (
above
)

‘resettlement centres' (camps) 274–5, 277, 285

Roman Catholic Church 234, 235, 239, 240–1, 273, 280–1, 290, 315

in the Second World War 237–8, 243, 283–4

and tourism 263, 286

United Nations and 241, 249, 255–7, 258, 259, 267, 281, 295–6, 298, 299, 322

East Timor: Building for the Future
296–7

EC
see
European Community

Economic Impact of the Gulf Crisis on Third World Countries
173, 174

Economist, The
474

Ecuador, US coercion of 182

Edelman, Maurice:
The Mirror: a political history
77

education, British:

and coup against democracy 114

failure of 27, 28

Labour Party and 98, 108

and teachers' salaries 60

Thatcher's secret policy and 31

Egypt:

effect of Gulf War on 174

US bribes to 175, 178, 179

Eiland, Colonel Michael 411, 413, 439–40

Eliot, T. S. 100

Elizabeth II, Queen 170, 524

El Salvador:

the author in 364–5

FMLN prosthetics programme 481

US intervention in 73, 391

EPLF (Etritrean movement) 517–18

EPRDF
see
Ethiopia

Erb, Richard 211

Eritrea:

drought in 176

independence of 323, 515–19

estates, British council 27, 29, 30

Etcheson, Craig 489, 492–3

Ethiopia:

drought in 221

EPRDF victory in 515–16, 518–19

effect of Gulf War on 173

and the independence of Eritrea 516–19

and US bribe for Security Council vote 181

euphemisms and jargon 73–4, 113, 119, 149, 225, 227, 228, 341, 353

in United Nations 426, 427, 428

European Commission on Human Rights: and Britain 68

European Community, the (EC):

the Balkans and 215–16, 217, 218

and Durham 53

and Greece 359

the illusion of 196

and Indonesia 305

Turkey's application to join 179

and US 340

Evans, Dave 479, 480–1

Evans, Gareth:

abuses the author and his film,
Death of a Nation
314–15

and Australian support for Suharto regime 234, 236, 311, 312, 313, 317, 535

Shirley Shackleton's meeting with 265

and the UN ‘peace plan' for Cambodia 427, 428, 463–4, 484, 493, 534–5, 569 n172

Evans, Grant 439

Evatt, Herbert Vere 427, 531

Evening Standard
37, 354, 450

Exxon Valdez
tanker 167

Fairhall, David 59

Fakhruddin, A. U. M. 365–6

Falk, Richard 147

Falklands War, the:

media coverage of 9, 77, 126, 134

tenth anniversary of 188

Falone, Tom 384

Falt, Eric 484

Far Eastern Economic Review
295, 442–3

Farrow, Cherry
see
Claxton, Nicholas

fascism (in Britain) 35, 38

Fathers, Michael 454

Ferranti Co. 176

Ferrers, Earl 83, 85

Ferrie, David 349, 350

Fields, Terry 110

film industry
see
Hollywood

First Tuesday
(Yorkshire TV) 85

Fisk, Robert 126

Fleming, Rhonda 334

Flewers, Paul 194

Florida, USA 381, 382, 384

Disneyworld 385–8

Foot, Paul 76, 184

Ford, Gerald, US President: and East Timor 251, 252, 254, 298, 338

Ford, Henry 100

Ford, Sir John Archibald 250

Ford Motors 116

Foreign Agents Registration Act (USA) 295

Foreign Aid Bill (USA) 299, 300

Foreign Office, British: and Cambodia 415, 419–20, 438, 445, 446, 455, 456, 463, 473

France:

arms sales to Indonesia 258

and Cambodia 459, 463

and East Timor 255

funding of bone marrow transplants 361

and the Gulf War 142

National Front 35

nuclear tests 248

the Press in 72, 73, 81

and UN ‘humanitarian intervention' 225, 226

union action 116

Frankfurter Allgemeine
236

Fraser, Malcolm 257, 269, 525, 541, 543

‘free market' dogma 16, 65, 66, 71, 73–4, 92–3, 108, 115–16, 194–6, 228

Fretilin
see under
East Timor

Friere, Paulo 243

Frost, David 165

Funcinpec party (Cambodia) 489–90

Furber, Sarah 362

Gaddafi, Colonel 187, 188, 225

Galeano, Eduardo (quoted) 19

Game, Sir Philip 536

Ganning, Joe 49

Gardner, Ava 334

Garrett, John 46

Garrison, Jim 346–7, 348, 345–50, 351

On the Trail of the Assassins
347

Gates, Robert 353

GATT
see
General Agreement on

Tariffs and Trade

Gaza strip 509–10

Geidt, Christopher Mackenzie 444–5

Gellhorn, Martha xi-xiv, 147, 481–2

The Face of War
511

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 75, 345

Geneva Convention, the Gulf War and 144, 161, 170, 183

Geneva Protocols (1977) 170–1

Genscher, Hans-Dietrich 215

George, Susan:

Debt Boomerang
88, 92

A Fate Worse Than Debt
19

Geraldton, Australia 532

Germany:

arms sales to Khmer Rouge 413

support for Croatia 214–15, 216, 217, 218

and East Timor 255

expansionism 214

the Press in 81

Gervasi, Sean 216, 217

Gestrin, Phyllis 410

Ghana 208

Gibbs, Philip 125

Gifford, Lord, QC 110

Gilbert, Kevin 543–4, 545, 548

Because a White Man'll Never Do It
545

The Cherry Pickers
544

Memorials
544

Gittings, John 188, 440

Giuliano, Bernardo 395–6

Glasgow: vulnerability to nuclear explosions 57, 59

Glasgow University Media Group 159

Glaspie, April 128

Glucksman, Dr Ed 39, 40, 42, 43

Godoy, Julio 15

Godwin, Wayne 443

Goldstone, Professor 360

Golob, Richard 167

Gomes, Sebastiao 290

Gonzalez, Harry 185

Goodlad, Alastair 306

Goodno, James:
The Philippines
:
Land of Broken Promises
498, 499, 502

Gopsill, Tim 10

Gorbachev, Mikhail 18, 100, 180, 198, 373, 375, 377

Gordon, Marc 458

Gordon, Paul and Rosenburg, David:
Daily Racism: The Press and Black People in Britain
(Runnymede Trust) 64

Gore, Al 390

Gorostiaga, Xavier 504

Gould, Bryan 97

Gowing, Nik 127

Gowland, Nick 50

Graham, Alec, Bishop of Newcastle 29

Granada Television:
World in Action
6, 7, 85

Grandmothers Against the Bomb xiv

Greater London Council 115

Greece: Leros psychiatric colony 358–9

Green Left Weekly
(Australia) 198

Greenpeace:
The Problems of the Trident Programme
60

Grierson, John 18, 87

Griffiths, Alan 313

Grove, Trevor 423, 449–50

Guardian
4, 17, 32, 36, 59, 120, 126, 134, 137, 152, 159, 166, 171, 183, 194, 198, 221, 223, 224, 228, 305, 308, 356, 436, 442, 470–1, 488

Guatemala: and de Leon's election 200

Guicciardi, Winspeare 255

‘Guildford Four', the 85

Guinea-Bisseau 241, 243

Guizado, Juan 66

Gulf War, the:

Allied bombs and weapons used in 3, 132–4, 137, 141, 142–3, 144, 157, 158–9, 167, 171, 175, 182, 184, 186, 226

Allied casualties 143, 151

American killing of British soldiers in 3, 172, 220

Australian troops 535

causes of 128–30, 135, 156, 157–8

civilian casualties 71, 132–4, 136–7, 140–1, 142–4, 151–5, 156, 161, 167–8, 170, 171, 177

effects on Iraq 172–3, 177

effects on other countries 173–5, 177

and the breaking of the Geneva Convention 144, 161, 170–1, 183

Hollywood and 147, 159

Kurdish and Shi'a casualties 166–8

Labour Party and 110, 127, 145, 189

media coverage of 2–3, 4, 9, 71, 73–4, 126–31, 133–5, 140–4, 151–5, 157–9, 166–7, 170, 171–2, 183–4

United States: manipulation of United Nations and 135, 136, 138, 148, 162, 171, 177–83, 186, 188, 226, 227;
see also above and
Bush, George

and Vietnam War 133, 147, 156–8

Gulf of Tonkin incident 13, 349, 350

Gulf Peace Team 172

Gunther, Curt 330–4

Gunther, Lizette 330

Gurindji, the 540, 541

Gusmao, Amelia 265, 320

Gusmao, Fatima 321

Gusmao, José 303, 321

Gusmao, Xanana 265, 278, 306, 320–1, 322

Guterres, Abel 321

Habibie, B. J. 303, 313

Haines, Joe 77, 78, 435

Haiphong, Vietnam, the bombing of 141

Haiti 113 and US/UN treatment 225–6, 227

Hamilton, Adrian 157

Hamilton, Archie 59, 302, 445, 446

Hammersmith Hospital, London 359–60

Hamzeh, Ahmed 507

Harman, Harriet 41

Harris, Robert 154

Harris, Stewart 545

Hartwell, Linda 361–2

Harvard Human Rights Journal
408

Hastings, Max 86, 125

Hastings, Peter 247–8

Hattersley, Roy 29, 37, 78

Havers, Philip 446

Hawk aircraft, British: use in Indonesia 301, 302, 303–4, 306–9, 319

Hawke, Robert (‘Bob') 11, 98, 311–12, 416, 525, 526–7, 534, 535, 536, 539, 541

Hayden, Bill 427, 451–2, 474

Haymarket Martyrs, the 18

Heath, Edward 110, 145

Heder, Stephen R. 487, 582 n185

Heffernan, Richard, and Marqusee, Mike:
Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
109–10

Hellier, David 184

Henze, Paul 515

Heritage Foundation (US) 225

Herman, Edward S.: ‘The Banality of Evil' 4

Heroes
(Pilger) 1, 357

Herron, Jeannine 511, 512

Herron, Matt 511, 512

Heseltine, Michael 32, 47, 53

Hill and Knowlton (PR firm) 294–5

Hird, Christopher:
Murdoch: The Decline of an Empire
79

Hiroshima, bombing of 171

Hitler, Adolf 91, 193, 214, 341, 477

Hussein compared to 425

Hoggart, Simon 154

Holbrooke, Richard 410

Holding, Clyde 541

Hollywood:

portrayal of Gulf War 147, 159

treatment of Vietnam War 89–90

Holmes, Lt-Col. John 445

homelessness (in Britain) 23–6

Home Office:
Race Attacks
34

Hong Kong 193, 194

and Star TV 316

Hope, Francis 340

Hopetoun, Earl of 531, 536

Horne, Donald:
The Lucky Country
527

Horta, José Ramos 242, 243, 321–2

Horta, Natalina 322

Hoskins, Dr Eric 4, 172–3

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