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Is there any way that East Timor, after the Portuguese withdrew in 1975, have become a sovereign independent new nation-state with no Indon invasion ? How could the FRETILIN vs UDT & APODETI civil war have been avoided or minimised, so as not to provide Jakarta with a pretext to invade ? How would an independent ET in 1975 have developed vis-a-vis relations with Indonesia, Australia, the US & the UN ?
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