Word: archipelago
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legislature of his own choosing, the new anti-Communist opposition calls itself the Democratic League, unites Moslems, Catholics, Protestants and splinter parties behind one idea: the necessity for radical changes in Sukarno's one-man rule. In three months the league has mushroomed into 60 chapters throughout the archipelago, plans to present Sukarno with a petition of several hundred thousand signatures demanding reinstatement of the elected Parliament...
...Zealand's most cherished articles of national pride are her champion rugby football team and the amity with which her 2,000,000-plus white settlers and the archipelago's 150,000 brown-skinned Maori (rhymes roughly with dowry) people live side by side. In a world deep in a turmoil, from Rhodesia to Indonesia, New Zealand's two prides combined last week in a heartening spectacle...