Word: baja
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Djakarta was alerted by the Sura-baja arms raid and reacted quickly. The army launched "territorial operations," occupying suspect villages and replacing village chiefs with military officers. But stronger measures were needed, and in June five battalions moved to launch sweeping search operations throughout South Blitar and its sandstone caves. In two months, they brought in 850 suspects, among them twelve members of the P.K.I.'s old Central Committee. They captured an arsenal of old bolt-action rifles, a few submachine guns and some homemade weapons. The army claimed that Oloan Hutapea, who took over the party...
...play, Chris was a handsome young man freighted with a load of Saviour symbolism. The Christ aspect has been mercifully muted in the movie, but there is still plenty of mystical mystification in the role. It seems that his vocation-conferred on him by a holy man in Baja California-is to help people ease their way into death, and Flora, hemorrhaging into her handkerchief, is his current candidate. She has other plans for Chris-bed. But when Flora finally gets him there, he begins taking off her jewels to prepare her for going forth on that far and final...
HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass surround themselves with musicians: the Baja Marimba Band, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, Liza Minnelli, Jazz Guitarist Wes Montgomery and Songwriter Burt Bacharach...
...BLACK PEARL, by Scott O'Dell (Houghton Mifflin; $3.25). The author of The Island of the Blue Dolphins has turned out another excellent novel; this one captures all the mysteries and dangers of pearl diving off the Baja California coast. For good measure, it adds a real live sea monster...
Wednesday, October 18 KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Host Lorne Greene gets assistance from the Baja Marimba Band, Jerry Van Dyke, Barbara Eden, Lou Rawls and Bobby Van to show "How the West Was Swung," a song-and-dance tale of the frontier and its rough-'n'-ready folk...