Word: archipelago
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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...
Long before Portuguese sailors discovered Indonesia in the 16th century, Chinese traders were carrying cloves and nutmeg from the green islands to the Chinese mainland. By the time the first Dutch colonists arrived, the Chinese had built small sugar mills and had the rudimentary commerce of the archipelago well in hand. They stayed on and prospered under the Dutch, and sided with the Dutch against Indonesian independence. After the Dutch lost, the Chinese entrenched themselves better than ever in the first confused years of the new republic...
...face of these affronts to the honor of human reason, Russell looks wistfully at the philosophers of the Grecian archipelago of 2,500 years ago. Philosophy, says Russell, must continue to deal with "impractical" questions, such as the meaning of life ("if indeed it have any at all"), which few boys, fewer men, and-on the record-no women have ever worried about for very long...
...Minerals, companies like California Standard, Amerada, Shell, Texaco and Midland have grabbed up 130 million acres in the area to stake millions on electronically corroborated hunches that underneath the permafrost lies one of the world's greatest oil pools. The rush has even pushed into the remote Arctic Archipelago, where at least ten companies have asked for exploration permits. Companies with household names such as Richfield are planning to explore places with exotic names such as Graham Island. And the northern halves of British Columbia and Alberta, though far south of last week's discovery site, have...