Word: bogor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moon Lake and hot sulphur baths at Peitou. Indonesia offers rewards for visitors fortified by optimism and durability. Accommodations are poor and government officials often both inept and insolent, but there are wonderful drives from the seedy capital of Djakarta through jungle-clad hills to cool Bandung and Bogor. Bali has two good hotels and is always lively with festivals, cockfights, legong dances and gala cremations. Burma is not much like Kipling's description of it, but Mandalay, Pagan and Rangoon have thousands of superb Buddhist monasteries and gold-domed temples alive with tinkling silver bells. With newer...
Missing Again. The vagrant MIG flew on to the nearby port city of Tandjung-priok, opened fire at the huge gas tank of the Stanvac Oil Co., missed the tank but wounded 14 people. Next, the plane swept over Bogor, 30 miles from Djakarta, made a strafing run at Sukarno's massive Bogor palace, and missed again. With its fuel exhausted, the MIG made a bellylanding in a West Java rice field. As the pilot, Lieut. Daniel Mauker, 28, looking dazed and shaken, stumbled from his Russian-made plane, he was seized...
...Army helicopters circled over Khrushchev's party as it progressed from Bogor to Bandung. Reason: a fear that one of the nearby Moslem rebel groups might try to pull off an assassination...