Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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United States blessing was already evident from the beginning of the operation. The main invasion "coincidentally" began one day after then-Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 and former President Gerald R. Ford visited the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta. Since then the U.S. has openly backed the Indonesian position. Every year, the U.S. has voted against U.N. General Assembly resolutions condemning Indonesia. (The reolutions were passed anyway.) Since mid-1976, the U.S. State Department has recognized East Timor as the 27th province of Indonesia contrary to international law and to the U.N. resolutions asserting the island's right...
...small, specially cleared audience in Washington--which included, the President of the United States. These leaked intelligence briefs, published in the Australian newspaper National Times in May and June 1982, have never been made public in the United States. They suggest that the U.S. State Department and President Ford gave their blessing of the invasion of East Timor with the full knowledge that international law as well as American laws were broken. Following are excerpts from the briefs...
...Commission, an agency often criticized for imposing oppressive rules on businesses. He rejects the Reaganomic notion that Government regulation and high taxation are the root causes of U.S. economic problems. Instead, Reich heaps most of the blame on the executives who run American corporations. Since the days of Henry Ford and the Model T, Reich points out, American managers have relied on mass production. Relatively unskilled workers on long assembly lines put together standardized products. That strategy, which served the U.S. so well for more than a half-century, is no longer viable, Reich argues. Standard goods, from shoes...
...Willie Mae Ford Smith is a round, sweet-faced woman with a shrewd yet sentimental eye, a determined spirit and a powerfully moving voice, now somewhat cracked by long, if lively service to the Lord. She is a beloved gospel singer, much looked to for moral and artistic guidance by people in her profession. Say Amen, Somebody is a documentary that follows her on her exhausting rounds, from bustling home to jumping church services to emotionally galvanic singing conventions. Following in her wake, the audience meets her mentor (Thomas A. Dorsey, a onetime blues singer and composer...
...McCloy's list of impressive posts--both in and out of government--includes: assistant secretary of war during World War II; U.S. High Commissioner for occupied West Germany after the war president of the World Bank in its first years; chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank; chairman of the Ford Foundation; chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations. Friend of presidents and cabinet secretaries. McCloy has been dubbed by many the most influential private citizen in America...