Word: borneo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wood products, a Japanese-owned pulp mill in Sitka, Alaska, uses the output of 1,500,000 nearby acres of leased forest, ships home 165,000 tons of pulp a year, presently provides 85% of Japanese imports. Additional sources are being developed in Canada and Borneo...
...tiny island of Singapore, strategically situated midway between India and China, has long been a commercial center of Southeast Asia. It processes and exports rubber, tin, pepper and copra from Malaya and Borneo, imports machinery from Australia, Britain and the U.S. Its trade has made it a leading banking, warehousing and insurance city in Asia. When Singapore joined with neighboring Malaya, nearby Sarawak and North Borneo in 1963 to form the rich Federation of Malaysia its 1.8 million people prepared expectantly for a boom in business...
...cured her husband of drink. Out of this, Maugham contrived a superb story (Before the Party), which begins in a prim country dwelling, turns into a confession by the fat widow that she had slashed her backsliding husband to death with a parang one hot afternoon in Borneo. After the confession, they all go to the vicar's garden party...
Resentment against Communists that swept the country after the coup attempt heightened the Moslems' fervor and persuaded the army to turn its head as the holy war spread quickly to western Borneo and Sumatra. In Central Java the army even gave military training to Moslem youths. The murder campaign became so brazen in parts of rural East Java that Moslem bands placed the heads of victims on poles and paraded them through villages...
Defensive Proviso. Like many divorced couples, Malaysia and Singapore have been getting on better since the separation than before. Though now independent, Singapore honored its defense commitments by sending half of its two-battalion army to replace a Malaysian detachment in Borneo, thus demolishing whatever prospects Singapore may have had of reconciliation with Indonesia. Singapore's Defense Minister Goh Keng Swee declared: "Our defense is indivisible," and Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman clapped him on the back, saying, "We will do or die together." Ministers of the two states are holding a series of meetings on economic cooperation...