Word: borneo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the 800-mile Malaysia-Indonesia frontier on Borneo, where Sukarno began his guerrilla raids, has been the scene of only sporadic clashes of late, Indonesia has stepped up its attacks on the Malay Peninsula itself. So far, each little marauding band has been wiped out almost as fast as it arrived. Christmas week was typical: 30 raiders debarked in southwestern Johore State, took to the adjacent swampland; within hours, three were dead, the rest captured. Next day the British frigate Ajax intercepted seven sampans carrying 22 raiders trying to sneak across the Malacca Strait to Malaysia...
Inconclusive Results. Last week, despite the hazard of winter storms with hurricane winds, two other rigs also drilled off West Germany for a German-American consortium. More rigs are converging on the area from as far off as Borneo, and shipyards from Belfast to Kiel are turning out drilling platforms to overcome a worldwide short age. All this activity is a result of the mammoth pocket of gas that was discovered in 1959 by Esso and Shell in the coastal Dutch province of Groningen near the German border. Seismic tests have since convinced oilmen that the North Sea may contain...
...prevent leakage of the air cushion and to ward off obstacles, this vehicle even cleared a 4½-ft. fence to show off its agility. In what may be the first military use of an air-cushion vehicle, the British plan to send a pair of armed Hovercraft to Borneo late this month for use against Indonesian terrorists...
...Abdul Rahman* told the Council, had been captured from the 40-odd, Indonesia-based paratroopers dropped into mainland Malaya two weeks ago. Last month more than 100 raiders hit Malaya by sea, opening a second front in Sukarno's undeclared war, which had been principally confined to northern Borneo. Declared Rahman to the assembled delegates: "I ask that you condemn such international brigandage...
Blithe Spirit. In reply, Indonesia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sudjarwo Tjondronegoro cockily admitted that "our volunteers, together with the militant youth of Sarawak and Sabah [North Borneo], some of whom have been trained in our territory, have entered so-called 'Malaysian' territory. They have been fighting there for some time. This is no secret." He couldn't understand why Malaysia was getting so excited. "The fighting now in Malaya is on a very small scale compared with the magnitude of the fighting in Sarawak and Sabah. Why, then, all the fuss? Is it because the present...