Republican (fascist/socialist) de facto President Ford (25th amendment) meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, with military dictator Major General el-Haj Mohammed Soeharto, gives the go ahead for his planned invasion of the former Portuguese enclave of East Timor.
Postscript: One-third of the East Timor’s population died as a result.
[added 11/17/2022]
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References:
Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic, (New York: Metropolitan, 2004), 75.
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