East Timor [was East Timor: the optimist's scenario]

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>fretilin was not poised to take over anything much in 1974.   there was
>already a civil war, between fretilin, the UDI (supported by portugal),
>and apodeti (supported by indonesia).
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>Angela
>_________

To cut off such outside support for those who stood in the way of Fretilin
was also the job of the Western Left, which failed to do so.  The (now
full-fledged) retreat of Fretilin is the obverse of the weakness of the
Left in imperialist countries.

Yoshie