> Robert Shaplen, the Asia correspondent of the New Yorker, commented..on East Timor in.. “Letter from Indonesia,”..[in] 1977.. his reconstruction.. “Indonesian troops intervened, somewhat crudely and clumsily, in December of 1975, in a war for independence which the East Timorese were ostensibly waging against Portugal.” The idea that the East Timorese were fighting Portugal is a novel contribution..

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