Word: archipelagos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Geologists suspect that the undersea oilfields stretch in twin crescents from the coasts of Burma and Thailand along the Indonesian Archipelago to as far south as Australia. If drilling proves them right, the results can not only spur development of the whole region, but will also surely alter the balance of global oil politics. Southeast Asia, along with Alaska's North Slope and the Siberian field that the Soviets revealed last month, could give world oil users great new sources of supply...
...Literally, Labor Camp Archipelago. The title suggests that in the Stalin era, vast areas of the Soviet Union were dotted with countless islands of concentration camps...
Indonesia, whose 115 million inhabitants make it the world's sixth most populous nation, is a land of immense resources and seemingly limitless potential. Throughout the 3,000 islands of the sprawling archipelago, however, all too few people seem to be exploiting this potential. An exception is the leadership of the 350,000-man armed forces...