Distant Voices (83 page)

Mafia, the: ties with the CIA 351

Maguires, the 100

Mailer, Norman 17

The Armies of the Night
341

Maitland, Geordie 55

Major, John:

and arms sales to Iraq 118, 189

and China 193, 194

a disciple of Thatcher 9–10, 37–8, 114

and East Timor 319–20

economic hardship caused by 117

and Germany's recognition of Croatia 216

and the Gulf War 128, 133, 134, 165, 338

and Hong Kong 193, 194

and the NHS 41, 45

racist policies of 38

supports US campaigns against Iraq and Libya 186–7

supports Yeltsin's ‘democracy' 113, 197

Makinson, Arnie 54

Malaysia:

British training camps in 416–17, 425

and Cambodia 412, 413, 474

see also
Singapore

Mali 364

Malik, Adam 242, 243, 247, 252, 259 259

Manchester:

death rate in 28

suspension of Labour councillors 103

Manchester Guardian
125, 198

Manley, Michael 200, 353

manufacturing, British 29

Mao Tse-tung, Pol Pot and 402, 441

Maralinga, Australia 532

Marchetti, Victor 350

Marcos, Ferdinand, President of the Philippines 204, 205, 209, 497, 498, 501

Marcos, Imelda 498, 500, 501

Marcovic, Ante 217

‘Mário' (Timorese) 290–1

Marketing Week
79

Marqusee, Mike
see
Heffernan, Richard

Marr, Mel 448

Martin, Ray 262

Mason, Harry 48, 50

Mason, Linda 410

mass movements, power of 111, 116, 160

Matrix Churchill affair 10, 118

Maxwell, Robert:

and the
Daily Mirror
76, 77, 78–9, 80, 81, 82

and Haines 78, 435

exploitation of libel laws 10

and the Labour Party 29

media coverage of his death 69, 71

and a plastic turd 358

and Scargill 51, 77

media, the:

and public opinion 13, 115–16

see
Press, the; television

Media Monitoring Unit (MMU) 86

Medical Educational Trust:

Continuing Health Cost of the Gulf War
177

Mellor, David 83, 85, 355

Men of Timor
(film) 237

Menzies, Sir Robert 532–3, 534, 537

Merritt, John 358–62

Merritt, Lindsay 360

Middle East International
179

Midlothian Mirror
349

MI5 9–10

and Australia 533

and Bazoft 355

Miles, Ed 479, 480, 481

Militant 102, 103, 105, 106, 109

Milius, John 89–90

Milosevic, Slobadan 216

Mines Advisory Group 467, 470, 580 n169

mining industry, British
see
coal industry, British

Ministry of Defence:

and
Death on the Rock
433, 444, 445, 446, 447, 450

and the Gulf War 172

and Trident 58–9

Miracle Nun of Teverina 395

MI6: and Australia 533

Cambodian operations 423, 444, 446

Mitchell, Denis 18, 87

Mitchell, Ebenezer 329

Mitterrand, Francois, President 142

MMU
see
Media Monitoring Unit

Mobutu, Joseph-Desiré 425

Mochter 579 n113

Modai, Yitzhak 180

Moi, Daniel Arap 223

Mok, General (‘Ta Mok') 454, 455

Monde, Le
258

Monks, John 111

Montreal Sabotage Convention 188

Morgan, General Mohammed Siad Hersi 223

Morgan Stanley and Co. 200

MORI polls 31–2

Morning Star
159, 198

Morrison, Bill 288–9

Morton, Brian 340

Moscow: (1977) 371–3; (1990) 376–80

Moscow News
377–8

Moses, Ken 54–5

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick 256–7

Mozambique 241

and the Gulf War 173

MPLA 226

Mpondah, Dingaan 72, 73

Mubarak, President, of Egypt 179

Mulhall, Michael 40

Muller, Robert O. (‘Bobby') 146, 147, 148, 154, 479–80, 481

Mullin, Chris, MP 420, 425, 444, 450

Munro, David:

films with the author 6, 86, 262–3, 271–4, 282, 283–6, 289, 292, 403, 407, 414, 415, 416, 421, 422, 423, 443, 444, 448, 449, 475

writes to
Evening Standard
450

Murdani, General Benny 251, 253, 270, 289, 290

Murdoch, Rupert:

and a ‘communications revolution' 64

a free market Karl Marx 7–8, 11

hijacks popular journalism 77, 79

visits Indonesia 316–17

and the Labour Party 29

papers controlled by 11–12, 71, 72, 76, 79, 84, 154

and Sky Television 84, 433–4

and Thatcher 8, 12, 14, 433, 434

Murray, Len 51

Murray Island, Australia 546

Murrow, Edward 87

Harvest of Shame
381

Murton Colliery, Durham 46, 47–53, 55–6

Murtopo, Ali 259, 260

Mussolini, Benito 15, 38, 341

Mysliwiec, Eva 472

Punishing the Poor: The
International Isolation of Kampuchea
457–8

Nader, Ralph 380

‘Nam Phann' (alias) 411

Namibia 323

Napalm, use of 5, 338, 390

Nash, Elizabeth 505

Nation
(Bangkok) 209–10

Nation, The
(US) 350, 453, 513

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (US) 513

National Audit Office 189

National Economic Development Agency 499

National Film Theatre (NFT) 83, 86

National Health Service (NHS):

acute services strategy 45

bone marrow donor scheme 361

Government ‘loyalists' in 67, 114, 118

Labour Party and 41, 98, 108

managers 41, 43–5

outstanding costs 60

and privatisation 98

and ‘productivity' 119

and trust hospitals 44, 118

see also
Hammersmith Hospital; King's College Hospital

National Intelligence Daily
251

National Lampoon's Vacation
(film) 385

National Security Council (US): and Khmer Rouge 414

National Union of Journalists 434

NATO 63, 218

Naughton, John 141

Nauru 248

Nazi Party 14, 171, 214, 217, 278, 333, 345, 401, 427, 494

Neak Loeung, Cambodia, bombing of 406

Nellist, Dave 103, 110

neo-Nazism
see
fascism

Nettel, Julian 40

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: youth services 31

Newsday
431

News of the World
85, 355

News on Sunday
358

New South Wales, Australia: Kurri Kurri miners 47, 329, 375

newspapers
see
Press, the

New Statesman and Society
171, 222

Newsweek
(US) 347, 351

Newton, Tony 138

‘new world order' 2, 147, 148, 168, 188, 193, 221, 222, 383

New York Daily News
128–9

New Yorker
215

New York Times
129, 163, 199, 297, 341, 347, 351, 383, 453, 488, 490, 492, 512

New Zealand:

and British imperialism 529

Labour Party 112

NFT
see
National Film Theatre

Nguyen Hai Xuan 141

NHS
see
National Health Service

Nicaragua:

CIA operations in 200, 353, 504

Contras in 416

Sandinistas 199, 200, 503–5

UNO coalition 490

Nicaragua
(film) 505

Niemeyer, Sir Otto 536

Nixon, Richard 5, 136, 146, 245, 248, 338, 364, 379, 382, 387, 406, 439, 480, 503

Nolan, Anthony 361

Nong Nhai camp, Cambodia 448

Nordland, Rod 566 n101

Noriega, General 15, 66, 129, 139

‘normalisation' of atrocities 4, 16

Normand, Roger 408, 409, 453

Norodom Ranariddh, Prince
see
Ranariddh, Prince Norodom

Norodom Sihanouk, Prince
see
Sihanouk, Prince Norodom

North, Colonel Oliver 353

North Shields: Meadow Well estate 29, 30

Norton-Taylor, Richard 184

Nottingham East Labour Party 110

nuclear weapons:

American test sites 335

British test sites in Australia 532–3

and the Gulf War 127, 182

Labour Party and 189

peace movement and 18, 100

safety aspects 57–9

and television coverage 86–7

and Thatcher 188

transportation of (in Britain) 57, 58

UN ban on attacking facilities 182

Nurrungar, Australia 532

Nyerere, Julius 72

Observer
:

profile of General Aidid 224

coverage of Gulf War 2, 126, 130, 141, 145, 154, 157, 161, 171

on the Khmer Rouge 465

on ‘liberal intervention' 228

Shawcross article (‘The Trouble with John Pilger') 440–1

on Mark Thatcher 190

vacuous reporting 65

and the Second World War 91

see also
Bazoft, Farzad; Merritt, John

O'Dwyer-Russell, Simon 414, 417, 421–4, 425, 449–50

Official Secrets Act 10, 84, 422

Oglesby, Carl 347

oil industry:

and East Timor 258, 275, 281, 311

Indonesian 323

and Libya 187

price rises 174

Oldham Labour Party 103

Omaar, Rakiya 223

Ombai-Wetar deep-water channels 257

Operasi Keamanan
(‘Operation Security') 285–6

Operasi Komodo
249, 269

Operasi Persatuan
(‘Operation Unity') 286

Operation Arc Light 132

Operation Badge Torch 415, 417–18

Operation Ranch Hand (Operation Hades) 390

Operation Restore Hope
see under
Somalia

Orwell, George 213

Road to Wigan Pier
46

O'Shane, Pat 547–8

Oswald, Lee Harvey 346, 347, 348, 349, 352

Outsiders, The
(film) xiii–xiv

Overseas Development Institute, London 175

Overseas Development Ministry 425

Owen, David 258, 301

Oxfam 172, 173, 175, 436
n
, 455, 456–8, 472

Punishing the Poor: The International Isolation of Kampuchea
457–8

Ozal, Turgut, President of Turkey 178–9

Packer, Kerry 11, 12, 525, 526

Page, Geoff: ‘Inscription at Villers-Bretonneux' 529

Pailin, Cambodia 465, 492

Pakistan, effect of Gulf War on 174

Palestinians, the:

and Anglo-American interests 195

demonisation of 159

Israeli brutality towards 138, 148, 149, 180, 509–10

Kuwaiti torture of 161

refugee camps 507–10

Pallister, David 184

Panama: US invasion of 65–6, 129, 193

Panorama
(TV) 9, 84, 119

Papua New Guinea 248

Paraguay, effects of Gulf War on 173

Parer, Damien:
Men of Timor
(film) 237

Parry, Mary 56

Parry, Tom 51–2

Pasqui, Ilio 396

Pat, John 540

PBS
see
Public Broadcast Service

Peck, James: introduction to
The Chomsky Reader
337

Peden, William 59

Pedler, John 430, 431, 473, 491, 572 n15

Pemberton, Greg 533

Pentagon Papers
158, 183

Pereira, Agio 321

Perez de Cuellar, Javier 241

Peters, Brian 266–70, 273, 304

Philippine Islands:

Calabarzon ‘superproject' 499–500

and land reform 498–9

the media and 69, 500–1

natural disasters 69–70, 497

political killings 501

poverty in 201–3, 206, 497, 499, 500, 501

Press agencies in 73

resistance movements 18–19, 500, 501–2

World Bank Conference, Manila (1976) 209

World Bank loans and 69–70, 204, 205–6, 498

Phillips, Melanie 32

Phnom Chat, Cambodia 410, 411

Phnom Penh, Cambodia:

author's visits: 1979 401, 402–3, 456–7; 1980 475–7; 1989 404, 405, 1992 478, 482–6

Gareth's Evans's visit 463–4

and Khieu Samphan's near lynching 461–2, 463

Khmer Rouge invasion (1975) 462

National Paediatric Hospital 462, 472

and Sihanouk's return (1991) 460–1

water supplies 471, 485

Phnom Penh Post
493

Pierce, Gareth: ‘Unleashing an Uncritical Press' 36

Pike, Douglas 452

Pike Congressional Committee 163

Pilger, Claude 327–31

Pilger, Elsie 327–31, 375, 523, 537

Pilger, Sam 373, 375, 376, 379

Pilger, Zoe 23, 382, 383, 385, 386, 387, 388, 523

Pinatubo, Mount, Philippines 497, 500

Pine Gap, Australia 532

Pinto, Constancio 321

Piper, Eric 364, 365

Platoon
(film) 90

Platt, Jack 523

Podlaski, Bo Pha 478, 481

Podlaski, Ron 468, 478, 479, 480, 481–2

Pol Pot 5, 402, 406

American funding of 409

Britain and 66, 424

and China 492

gestapo 405

as ‘Hitler revisited' 425–6

and Mao 402, 441

and the Press 418

rehabilitation of 452, 453–4

strategy for return to power 149, 407–9, 474, 489, 491, 493, 494

and United Nations 227, 407, 409, 412, 415–16, 419, 426, 427, 428, 429, 443, 459, 461, 491, 493–4

Vietnamese defeat of 440, 441, 451

see also
Khmer Rouge

Polaris missiles: unsafe warheads 57, 58, 59

police:

American 514

Australian: and Aborigines 538, 539–40

British:

and miners' strike 51

and racism 33, 34–5, 36

Police and Criminal Evidence Act (1984) 10