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UDT: Timorese Democratic Union
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uth Vietnam]]. *1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin. *1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo to Honolulu, killing one teenager and injuring |
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al party]] in East Timor established in 1974, which favoured integration with Indonesia. Along with another East Timor party, the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT), it signed a petition in 1975 calling for Indonesia to annex the region. ==History== East Timor was a Portuguese colony for several hundred years. When the [[Carnation Revol |