Distant Voices (85 page)

television:

and Broadcasting Bill amendments (1990) 68, 83–7

and censorship 83–7, 183

current affairs programmes on 6–7, 84–7, 92

coverage of Gulf War 71,
126–7, 133–5, 141–4, 153, 159, 166–7, 171, 183–4

distortion of news on 65–8, 69–72, 88–9, 141–4, 153–4

independent documentary film makers 18

interviews with Irish politicians 67, 87

and murder of reporters in East Timor 234, 249, 264, 265–70, 273, 282–3

and Rupert Murdoch 7–8, 84, 433–4

coverage of Somalia 220, 222

Thatcher's political pressure on 6, 83–7, 433–4, 447

see also
British Broadcasting

Corporation; Central

Television; Granada

Television; Thames

Television

Temple, Corina 52

Temple, Dave 46, 52

Terkel, Studs 17–18

terrorism, media coverage of 73

Teverina, Tuscany 393, 394–5, 397

Thailand (
see also
Bangkok):

and American support for the Khmer Rouge 409–10, 411, 412, 413–14, 436, 439–40, 475

Army collaboration with Khmer Rouge 409, 410, 411, 466, 492, 493

British Cambodian operations run from 414, 415, 416, 417, 419, 420–2, 425, 436, 437–8

and Chatichai Government 474–5

economy of 209, 418

environmental disaster in 211

and investment in Cambodia 486

Khmer Rouge border camps and bases in 409–10, 448, 459–60, 466, 486

and Oxfam 456, 457

Western journalists in 411, 417, 436, 442

Thames Television:

loses franchise over
Death on the Rock
6, 9, 84, 434, 447

This Week
series 6

Thames Water: in Phnom Penh 471

Thaoun Prasith 412

Thatcher, Margaret:

and arms exports to Hussein 118, 155, 355

and Bazoft's murder 354, 355

and British involvement in Cambodia 414–15, 417, 420, 437, 455

and the co-opting of British liberalism 119

economic hardship under 24, 28, 30, 31, 32, 117

and education 31

foreign policy of 188, 196

and housing 24

visits Indonesia 306

and Iraq 155

‘loyalists' under 67, 115

John Major a disciple of 37–8

and the media 9, 68, 77, 84, 85, 86, 87, 433, 434

and the miners 51, 55

and Rupert Murdoch 7, 8, 84, 433

portrait at IMF Conference 207–8

and racism 34, 35, 108

‘received truths' from 63, 64

secrets legislation under 66–7, 84, 114–15, 422

and Thames Television 6, 9, 84, 434, 447

and US boycott of Vietnam 455
see also
Thatcherism

Thatcher, Mark 190

Thatcherism 109, 113–14, 115, 119

Thayer, Nate 452–3, 488

Third World, the:

and American imperialism 149–50, 168

media coverage of 70, 71–3, 74–5

and World Bank loans 195, 203–4, 208–9, 211, 345

Third World Resurgence
19, 72

This Week
(TV) 6

Thmar Pouk, Cambodia 466

Thomas, Judge Clarence 512–13

Thompson, Edward 117, 119

Thornburgh, Richard 225

Thornton, Clive 77–8, 79

Tien Harto 284

Tigrayans 515, 517, 519

Time-Life 349

Time
magazine 220

Times, The
:

coverage of Cambodia 454, 455

warned off East Timor 305

coverage of Gulf War 126, 152

and Woodrow Wyatt 85

and World War II 91, 401

see also
Russell, William Howard

Times Newspapers 433

Times-Warner 72

Timor
see
East Timor; West Timor

Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) 241, 249, 250

Timorese Popular Democratic Association (Apodeti) 242

Timorese Social Democratic Association (ASDT) 242

Timor Gap, the 258

Timor Gap Treaty 311–12, 318, 535

Today
(newspaper) 355

Today
(Radio 4 programme) 14, 86

Todd, Robert: house-building project 505–6

Tolfree, Maureen (
nee
Peters) 304–5

Tolstoy, L. N.: quoted 208

Tomahawk cruise missiles 133–4, 143, 148

Tonga 248

Tonkin, Derek 417, 437, 438, 444, 450, 471

Tornado aircraft, British 175, 176, 189–90

Townsend, Professor Peter: ‘Inner City Deprivation and Premature Deaths in Greater Manchester' 28

Toxteth uprising (1982) 31, 32

Tracanelli, Margherita 321

trade unions:

and collaboration with Government 86

journalists' 78

and the Labour Party 107, 111, 120

and the middle classes 116

miners' 50–1, 54–5, 115

routing of 29

and Mrs Thatcher 433

Trades Union Congress (TUC) 108, 111

Training and Enterprise Councils 115

trials, reporting of 10, 446–8

Trident submarines 57, 58–60, 110, 120

Trumpington, Baroness 302

Truth Game, The
(film) 86–7

Try Sutrisno 563 n13

Tudjman, Franjo, President of Croatia 214, 215, 216

Tuol Sleng extermination centre, Cambodia 455, 494

Turchin, Valentyn 371, 378

Turkey:

and the EC 179

and US bribes 178–9

and US PR firm 295

Turner, Michele 321

Tuscany, Italy 393, 394–5, 396–7

TV Guide
: ‘Why American TV is So Vulnerable to Foreign Propaganda' 187

Twining, Charles H., Jr 463, 493

Uch Kiman 448

UDT
see
Timorese Democratic Union

Uganda, effect of Gulf War on 174

UKUSA Treaty 532

UN
see
United Nations

Un-Americans, The
(BBC TV series) 102

UNBRO
see
United Nations Border Relief Operation

UNDP
see
United Nations Development Programme

unemployment:

in Australia 524, 527

in Britain 28–9, 31–2, 46, 51–6, 110–11, 114, 150

in the United States 111–12, 335, 512

UNICEF:

aid to Cambodia 403, 436

reports:

on Iraq 177

on Jordan 174–5

on Third World debt repayment 203, 211

Union of Communication Workers 120

unions
see
trade unions

UNITA (Angola) 226, 490

United Nations (UN):

American manipulation of 15, 16, 135, 136, 138, 148, 162, 177–83, 186, 188, 225–8, 486–8, 516–17

Australia and 531

British ‘Asylum' Bill condemned by 36–7

British violation of Charter 186, 188

and Cambodia 226, 227, 403, 407, 409, 410, 411, 412–13, 415–16, 418, 419, 424, 426–7, 428, 429, 442, 443, 448, 452, 459–60, 461, 462–6, 468, 471, 475, 477, 481, 482–91, 492, 493–4, 534–5

and East Timor 241, 244, 249, 255–7, 258, 259, 267, 281, 295–6, 298, 299, 318, 322

and the linking of Eritrea and Ethiopia 516–17, 519

‘natural disasters' as defined by 174

report on deaths among Palestinian children 509

Resolution 661 on sanctions 172–3

and West New Guinea 244

and the World Bank 175

see also
UNICEF
and the following entries

United Nations Border Relief Operation (UNBRO) 412, 459

United Nations Children's Fund 484

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 471, 486

United Nations Fund for Population Activities Prize 285

United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) 36–7, 460

United Nations Human Rights
Commission 236, 292
n
, 299, 305, 315, 318, 322, 426

United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) 465

United Press International (UPI) 72, 73

United States of America:

arms industry 129, 159, 163–4, 165, 180, 185, 188, 220, 223, 246–7, 254–5, 297–8, 299–300, 313, 318, 383

and Australia 531, 533–6

and Cambodia:

bombing 405, 406, 410, 439 and Hun Sen regime 473, 474 policy 409, 416, 439–40, 464, 471 and Prince Sihanouk 429, 430–1, 474 support for Khmer Rouge 226, 409–10, 411–12, 413–14, 431–2, 436–7, 451–3, 466

and China 426–7

civil rights in 343, 344, 381, 511–14

and death squads in El Salvador 73, 391

and Ethiopia 515–17, 519

and Europe 340

freedom in 343

German Jews in 334, 344

and the Gulf War 127, 128–30, 132, 133–4, 135, 138, 140–5, 147, 148, 151–4, 157–60, 165, 170–1, 177–83, 184, 185, 220, 226, 227, 382–3, 390–2

imperialistic aims of 88–93, 148–50, 161–2, 166, 168, 194, 228, 229, 337–8, 339, 341–2, 392

and Indonesia 245–7

and Indonesian occupation of East Timor 234, 235, 250–1, 252, 254–5, 256, 257, 294–5, 297–301, 313, 318

and ‘information imperialism' 72–4, 88–9

intelligentsia 339, 341–5

and support for Israel 73, 138, 148–9, 165, 213, 227, 339–40, 508

and the Kurds 162–3, 165–9

murders and mugging in 332, 384

and nuclear weapons 57–8

invasion of Panama 15, 61, 65–6, 129, 193

Press 99–100;
see also New York Times; Washington Post etc
.

and Roosevelt's ‘new deals' 99–100

and Somalia 220–2, 223–5, 228

unemployment and poverty 111–12, 335

and United Nations
see
United Nations, American manipulation of

and Vietnam 212, 226, 392, 409, 416, 436, 442, 443, 455, 473;
see also
Vietnam War

and the World Bank 175, 204

and the division of Yugoslavia 213, 216–17

UNTAC
see
United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia

UPI
see
United Press International

Urbanak, Zdener 64

USAID 466

US News and World Report
178

Vallez, Teresita 500

Valli, Gianfranco 393–4

Valued Added Tax (VAT) 117, 119

Vane Tempest Colliery, Durham 46, 47, 53

VAT
see
Value Added Tax

Vergara, Camilo Jose 513

Vestey, Lord 542

Vickery, Michael 474

Victoria, Queen 328, 536

Vietnam (
see also
Vietnam War):

American policy and 91, 212, 226, 392, 409, 413, 416, 436, 442, 443, 455, 472

Britain and 66, 455

and Cambodia 66, 405, 409, 416, 418, 435–6, 439, 440, 441–3, 449, 451–2, 455, 465, 476, 487–8, 490, 493

Vietnam Project's Limb Centre 469, 478

Vietnam Trading Corporation 471

Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation 146–7, 409, 469
n
, 480

Vietnam War:

American bombing and civilian casualties 91, 132–3, 141–2, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 391–2

American imperialism and 90–1

use of chemicals in 144, 286, 338, 390

and Disney's ‘Victory Field' tableau 389, 391, 392

and the Gulf of Tonkin incident 13, 351, 352

and the Gulf War 133, 147, 157–8

Hollywood's treatment of 89–90

jargon and euphemisms in 132, 133, 134

and Kennedy's assassination 347, 351

media coverage of 73, 126

myths about 90–1, 126, 147, 156–7, 337–8, 341, 389

Operation Arc Light 132

Operation Ranch Hand (Hades) 390

and the
Pentagon Papers
158, 183

and soldiers ‘missing in action' 383

veterans from 146, 477–8,
see

Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation

Vietnamese women killed in 390

Vorontsov, Yuli 181

Waite, Terry 100

Waldegrave, William 45, 118, 419, 445

Waldheim, Kurt 255, 256

Waldron, Karl 152

Walesa, Lech 67

Walker, Brian 457

Wall Street Journal
200

Wallace, George, Governor of Alabama 514

Walsh, Pat 321

Walters, Patrick 316

Walton, Doug 49

Wanandi, Marcus 315

war:

media and 125–7, 130–1, 172

see
Falklands War; Gulf War; Vietnam War; World Wars

Warby, Maria 51

Warby, Patrick 51

War Game, The
(TV) 8

War on Want (British agency) 518

Warren, Chief Justice Earl 351–2

Warren Commission 346, 347, 348, 349, 351

Washingtonian
magazine 348

Washington Post
57, 143, 236, 297, 348, 350, 389–90, 441

Washington Quarterly
452

water industry, British 66

see also
Thames Water

Watergate affair 352

Waterhouse, Rosie 184, 434

Wattez, Edouard 486

Watts, David 305

Wave Hill, Australia 542

Weir, Fred 198

Weiss, Robert 389

WE177 bombs 58

West, Nigel
see
Allason, Rupert

West New Guinea: and the UN 244

West Timor 240, 242, 252, 271

White, Colonel Richard ‘Snake' 140

Whitehead, Ian 415

Whitlam, Gough 530–1

and Aboriginal land rights 248, 541, 542, 543

and East Timor 243, 244, 247–9, 257, 268, 269, 288, 311

sacked by Sir John Kerr 532, 536, 543

Whitty, Larry 110

WHO
see
World Health Organisation

Wicker, Tom 383

Wilenski, Peter 427

Wilkins, J. L. 305

Willesee, Don 269

Williams, Bill 49, 55

Willis, Norman 111

Wilson, Harold 435

Windlesham, Lord 434

Winer, Jonathan 409

Wisconsin
, USS 148

Wisnumurti, Nugroho 295–6

witchhunting: in Labour Party 102–6, 109

women:

British miners' wives 56

in Eritrea 516

and Vietnam War 390