1969: Operation Menu
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US launches Operation Menu, a massive indiscriminate bombing campaign against Cambodia, summarized by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as "A massive bombing campaign against Cambodia. Anything that flies on anything that moves. You got that?" (see entry for August 9, 1970)

1969: Anguillan Freedom Fighter "Pleads" with the UN for Protection Against British Invasion; US Does Nothing to Help
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London’s _Daily Express _and _Evening News _dailies leak news of the Anguilla invasion, a day before it actually takes place. Jeremiah Gumbs, pleads with the UN to send a delegation to Anguilla to avoid a human tragedy.

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1982: Operation Bahamas and Turks and Caicos
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US establishes its right to intervene in Bahamas and Turks and Caicos at will, to fight the "war on drugs": "On March 18th 1982, the Bahamas, which already was sharing a sound law enforcement relationship with its ally to the north the United States of America, received a diplomatic note from the United States recommending the formation of a Tripart Agreement between The United States of America, The Commonwealth of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands for the purpose of collaborating to interdict and disrupt narcotic networks working in the respective countries. "

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