by John Pilger
Powell, General Colin 133, 134
Powell, Enoch 34
Pravda 197, 372, 378
Presley, Elvis 335
Press, the:
Australian 11–12, 79, 99, 526, 537, 538
and Bazoft’s murder 354–7
and the ‘big four’ news agencies 72–3
coverage of Cambodia and Indo-China 407–8, 411, 413, 414, 417, 418, 421–5, 431–2, 436, 441–3, 450–1, 452–5, 461, 465, 488
and censorship 10, 12–13, 59, 64–8, 153, 171–2, 183, 339, 342–3, 357
coverage of Eastern Europe 63, 64, 65
in France 81
in Germany 81
and Government ‘loyalists’ 67
coverage of Gulf War 71, 73–4, 126–30, 133, 134, 140–1, 142, 143, 145, 151–2, 153, 154–5, 157, 158, 161–2, 163, 167, 171–2, 183
coverage of Israeli affairs 73, 134
and the Labour Party 37, 76, 78–9, 81–2, 99, 120
and ‘mainstream’ journalism 15, 97
‘neutrality’ and ‘objectivity’ in 70–1
ownership of 11–12, 71
racist issues and 35–6, 37, 38, 64
in Russia 197, 372, 377–8
and use of smear tactics 355–7, 433–43
coverage of Somalia 220, 221, 223–4, 228
in Sweden 81
A. J. P. Taylor on 76
terminology and misinformation in 13–14, 73–4, 113, 119, 149, 341, 353; see also euphemisms and jargon
coverage of terrorism 73
coverage of Third World 70, 71–3, 74, 75
replaced by TV as ‘fourth estate’ 85
and war reporting 125–6, 130–1
coverage of Yeltsin 197–8, 199, 200
see also Daily Mirror
Preston, Lewis T. 208, 209, 210
Prevention of Terrorism Act 10
Price, Dr Charles 524
Price, Morgan Philips 198
Principe see Sao Tome and Principe
privatisation 92, 114, 117, 120, 194
of coal industry 52, 53–5, 115–16
and National Health Service 98
Public Broadcast Service (US) 441
‘Public Interest ImmunityCertificates’ 10, 446
Purvis, Stewart 127
Qian Qichen 181
quangos, Government 17, 115
Question Time (TV) 14
Questions of Leadership (film) 86
Quick, Susan 225
racism:
in America 381, 511–14
in Britain 33–8, 100–1 and the police 33, 34–5, 36 the Press and 35–6, 37, 38, 64–5
radio see British Broadcasting Corporation
Radio Australia 261, 262
Raghip, Engin 100
Rambo series (films) 90
Ranariddh, Prince Norodom 416, 461, 489–90, 492
Rand Corporation 515
‘Ratanak Project’, Canada 472n
Razgon, Lev 378
Reagan, Ronald:
and Cambodia 409, 411–12, 443
and civil rights 512, 514
and communism 91
corruption of administration 339
at Disneyworld 388
and East Timor 299
involvement in El Salvador 391
false rhetoric 196
and Gaddafi’s ‘assassination attempt’ 187
and Nicaragua 338
Star Wars project 383
and Vietnam War 144, 147
Red Cross see International Red Cross
Reed International 77, 78
refugees, British treatment of 35–7, 359
Regan, Ken 333, 335
Reid, J. B. 257
Reith, Lord 87
Rennie, Malcolm 266–70, 273, 304
Repentance (film) 350
Reuter (news agency) 72, 73, 180, 283
Richards, Ben (pseudonym) 263, 276n
Rimington, Stella 10
Rio Tinto Zinc 301
Roberts, Professor Adam 151
Rockeye cluster bombs 142–3, 157
Rogers, Dr Paul 143
Rojas, Don 72
Rolls-Royce 190, 301
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 99, 195, 352
Rose, David 184
Rosenburg, David see Gordon, Paul
Rosenstock, Robert 463
Rossi, Guido 397
Rossi, Mario 393, 394
Rothermere, Viscount 71
Rothwell, Nicholas 7–8, 12
Rowland, ‘Tiny’ 71
Royal Australian Airforce 238
Royal Ordnance 471
Royal Television Society 85
Ruby, Jack 349
Runnymede Trust 101
report on racism (1989) 64
Rusbridger, James 585 n11
Rushdie, Salman 180, 344, 356
in defence of his work 65
Rusk, Dean 246
Russell, William Howard: Crimea diaries 130–1
Russia (Soviet Union):
author visits 371–3 (1977), 373–80 (1990)
and the bombing of Bosnian Serbs 218
the ‘Cold War’ with 9, 65, 88, 91–2, 168, 194
and East Timor 255, 259
economy of 194–5, 376, 377, 379–80
education in 375
and bombing of Eritrea 517
Helsinki Agreement and 371
miners in 372
the Press in 197, 372, 377–8
and US bribe over UN Resolution 678 180–1
at World Bank/IMF Conference 211–12
and Yeltsin’s ‘democracy’ 13–14, 113, 197–200
S & L Typewriters 366, 367
S-21 (Pol Pot’s gestapo) 405
Sackur, Stephen 152–3
Sahnoun, Mohammed 223
Said, Edward 143, 508
Culture and Imperialism 88–9
Said, Quaser 140
Sainsbury, Tim 420
St Petersburg (Leningrad) 373–6
St Petersburg, USA 382–4
St Petersburg Times (USA) 383, 384
Sala Kran camp (Cambodia), attack on 470
Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira 241
Samoa 248
sanctions, effects of 159, 172–3
Sanders, Jacquin 384
Sanderson, Lt-Gen. John 465, 466, 483, 484
Sandinistas, the 199, 200, 503–5, 516
Sands, Richard 306
Santana, Koni 262
São Tomé and Principe 241
SAS see Special Air Services
Saudi Arabia:
British arms contract with 189–90
and Gulf War 74, 174, 179, 180
Yemeni workers expelled from 182, 183
Save the Children Fund 172, 173, 223, 509
Savimbi, Jonas 226
Savoy, Paul 513
Scargill, Arthur 47, 51, 55, 77, 356
Schabedly, Linda 171
Schanberg, Sidney 431–2
Schlesinger, Arthur 342
schools see education
Schools Examination and Assessment Council 114
Schultz, George 427, 452, 534
Schwarzkopf, General Norman 4, 73–4, 128, 142, 144, 162, 166, 167, 170, 388
Scott, C. P. 125
Scott, Lloyd 362
Scott, Lord Justice: enquiry 118
Scrine, Gil 321
Buried Alive (film) 237
Seabrook, Jeremy 18, 71–2, 108
secrets legislation (in Britain) 10, 66–7, 84, 422
Selassie, Emperor Haile 516, 517
Senegal 208
Serbs 214, 215–18
Sethi, Dr P. K. 469
Shackleton, Greg 265, 266–70, 273, 282
Shackleton, Shirley 265–6, 267–8, 270, 273, 321
Shadow over Timor (film) 237
Shah of Iran 163
Shamir, Yitzhak 508, 510
Shannon, Paul 490
share-issue campaigns, Government 67
Shaw, Clay 346, 349–50
&nb
sp; Shawcross, William 430, 437, 438–43, 450, 473, 487, 488
The Quality of Mercy 439–40
Sideshow 439, 441
Sheerman, Barry 119–20
Sheldon, Robert 189
Shelter 31
Sheridan, Greg 316
Sherman, Steve 179
Shi’a, the 162, 165, 166–7, 168
Shinwell, Emmanuel 52
Shiva, Vandana 211
Shostakovich, Dmitri: Seventh Symphony 374
Shrimpton, Neil 471
sickle cell disease 42
Siddhi (Thai Foreign Mininster) 578 n113
Siem Reap province, Cambodia 411, 414, 464–5
Sihanouk, Prince Norodom:
the belle époque of 428–9
as head of Cambodian ‘coalition’ 412, 459, 460–1, 463, 474, 483
and the Khmer Rouge 415, 416, 429–31, 460, 461, 473, 491–2, 494
and the 1993 election 490, 491
US and 429, 430–1, 472
Sihanoukists 412, 469
Simpson, John 126
Sin Sisamouth 476
Sinclair, Upton 17
Singapore:
abandoned by British in Second World War 530
and invention of Cambodian ‘coalition’ 412
and investment in Cambodia 486
in support of Khmer Rouge 413, 425, 457
and the withholding of aid for Cambodia 471
single mothers, Tory assault on 119
Singleton, Neil 362
Sivanandan, A. 149
Skinner, Dennis 54–5
Sky Television 84, 433–4
Slepak, Maria and Vladimir 371–3
Slovenia 214, 215, 216, 217, 218
Smart, Noel 448
Smith, Colin 465
Smith, Dave 366, 367
Smith, Derek 45
Smith, Jan 56
Smith, John 97, 103, 107, 112, 120
Jean Calder’s letter to 103, 105–6
Snow, Peter 126–7, 167
Soares, Abilio 563 n4
Soares, Mário, President of Portugal 259–60, 319–20
Sobchak, Anatoly 378
Social Trends 116
‘society’: as defined by Mrs Thatcher 113–14
Solarz, Stephen 413, 431–2, 452–3
Solomon, Richard 452–3, 475
Somalia:
divisions in 222–3
Operation Restore Hope 220–2, 223–4, 225, 228, 391–2
Somoza, Anastasio 503
Son Sann 416
Son Sen 455, 458, 462, 463, 494
South Africa:
apartheid in 195
Australia and 529, 539, 542
‘power sharing’ in 226
South End Press (USA) 343
Soviet Union see Russia
Special Air Services (SAS):
in Ethiopia 516
and Gibraltar assassinations 9, 84, 434
and the training of the Khmer Rouge 414, 415–17, 419, 421–4, 437, 438, 444–50, 469–70, 471
Spectator 438, 444, 450
Spycatcher case 447
SRAM-A air-launched missiles 57
Sri Lanka, effect of Gulf War on 175
Stahl, Max (pseudonym) 236, 260, 263, 276n, 280, 303, 315
Stalin, Josef 91, 195, 342
Stalinism 194–5, 196
Western ‘market’ 193, 194, 195–6
Star TV 316
Steele, Jonathan 198
Steinbeck, John 17
The Grapes of Wrath 335
Stevens, Lord 71
Stevenson, Arthur (‘Steve’) 238, 239, 280
Stevenson, Robert Louis 135
Stewart, Michael 247
Stewart, Tony 266–70, 273
Stillingfleet Colliery, Yorkshire 54
Stokes, Sir John 530
Stone, Oliver 352
JFK 347–8, 350–2, 353
Salvador 353
Stringer, Guy 457
Suai, East Timor 274, 275–6
Suchinda Krapayoon 475
Sudan:
effect of Gulf War on 173, 175
and US coercion 182
Sugar, Alan 366
Sugden, Ron 50, 55
Suharto, General:
Australian support for 12, 244–5, 247, 264, 313–14, 317
British arms sales to 16, 258–9, 301–4, 306–11
his coup against Sukarno 244, 245–6, 275–6, 341
and family members in power 261, 284, 315, 323
and the invasion of East Timor 233, 237, 239, 247, 249, 251, 254, 274, 288, 297, 299
and Paul Keating 12, 313–14, 317
receives UN Fund for Population Activities Prize 285
and the Santa Cruz massacre 312
and US public relations firms 294–5, 299
US support for 245–7, 299, 300, 425
and Marcus Wanandi 315
his waning power 322–3
Gough Whitlam’s relationship with 243, 247, 269
suicides:
in Britain 110–11
of Vietnam War veterans 146
Sukarno, ‘Bung’ 244, 245
Sun:
on Bazoft’s murder 354, 355, 356
coverage of the Gulf War 126, 159
as market leader 64, 76, 77, 79, 81
and racism 36, 38, 77
Sun Tzu, General: The Art of War 493
Sunday Mirror 80
Sunday Telegraph:
accuses author of supporting Khmer Rouge 450
smears Bazoft 355–6, 357
on investigative journalism 10
and Simon O’Dwyer-Russell 414, 421, 422, 423, 449–52
Sunday Times 79, 154
smear campaigns 433, 434, 435–8
Sunderland Echo 53
Svay Toeu, Cambodia 406–7
Swallow, Norman 18, 87
Swank, Emory 406, 474
Sweden:
and arms supplies to Khmer Rouge 413
change of stance at UN 418
freedom of the press in 81
as model for Fretilin leaders 243
Sydney, Australia 523, 538
‘Bicentenary’ celebrations 545–6
Sydney Morning Herald 236, 247–8, 249, 261, 262, 314, 492, 539, 541, 563 n4
Sydney University 329, 540
Syria: US and Assad regime 179–80, 187–8
Target USA (film) 159
Tawney, R. H. 30
Taylor, A. J. P.: on newspapers 76
Taylor, D. J.: ‘While the pen sleeps’ 17
Taylor, Elizabeth 334, 394
Taylor, John G. 253, 288, 321
Tea Banh, General 448
Teachers’ Pay Review Body 115
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
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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