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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...
September 26, 1975: "Vastly increased Indonesian involvement is now proposed: special forces troops, armed with weapons that cannot be traced to Jakarta will be used. Malaysia has reportedly agreed in principle to supply such weapons...recent press reports from Jakarta that claim FRETILIN forces crossed the border and attacked Indonesian Timor may have been released by military officers in an effort to build up the pressure on Suharto...
October 31, 1975: "Despite increasingly visible military activities, Jakarta continues to deny its involvement and attributes all fighting to anti-FRETILIN Timorese. President Suharto remains concerned about international reaction and continues to make an effort to deny any territorial ambitions...
December 5, 1975: "President Suharto has reportedly approved a plan to begin overt Indonesian intervention in Portuguese Timor soon after President Ford leaves Jakarta...Suharto is undoubtedly still concerned about the effects of an Indonesian invasion on his relations with the U.S., particularly the continuation of U.S. military aid, and he will try hard to present a plausible justification...Suharto is certain to try to elicit a sympathetic attitude from President Ford during their meetings...
...plot thickens from here--or rather, it becomes mush Guy falls for a beautiful attache at the British Embassy after a whirlwind, cardboard romance. As the hottest ticket in Jakarta's diplomatic community. Sigourney Weaver again makes heads turn But like the other subplots that spring up every five minutes, their relationship is almost irrelevant to the film's most important point the struggle by Hamilton and Kwan to work out for themselves how to deal with the frighteningly immense human problems they must confront every...