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...WIRE) PRINCETON, N.J.--Indonesia's Bukit-Barifan-Seletan National Park doesn't compare to Paris for many summer tourists. But a group of eight environmentally dedicated students--members of the Princeton's Save the Tiger campaign--will set out on a two-month adventure to the park in June...
...armored car, Adlai Stevenson invaded the green depths of Malaya's Red-infested jungle to visit the village of Bukit Lanjan and see a tribe of Sakai, roving aborigines. The friendly little people had been warned that a tuan besar (great master) from over the sea would visit them. And for their visitor they had a gift: a 6-ft. blowpipe (which native marksmen use with rifle accuracy at 25 yards) and a supply of nonpoisonous darts. Said the pleased visitor: "It's the most exciting thing that has happened to me." Would he like...
...hell is the Sultan anyway? He wouldn't be where he is now if it weren't for the R.A.F. and the security forces." In a terrible temper, the Sultan decided to take his revenge upon the British: he ordered Commissioner General MacDonald to get out of Bukit Serene...
There is probably no finer house in Malaya than Bukit Serene (peaceful hill), the green-tiled granite palace of the Sultan of Johore. But the Sultan has never occupied Bukit Serene. Four years ago he was persuaded to let it indefinitely to Malcolm MacDonald, the British commissioner general in Southeast Asia, at a nominal rent-just enough to pay the wages of the palace's 37 gardeners...
After four years at Bukit Serene, Commissioner General MacDonald felt it was his home. He had done most of his entertaining there, pursued his hobby of ornithology, housed there his collection of objets d'art (Malay silver and Chinese porcelain) and his rare Asian library. When he showed no inclination to move, the Sultan's men cut off the water supply to the swimming pool. Scot MacDonald, a stubborn man, went swimming in the rivers of Borneo instead, and went on living at Bukit Serene. Last week, however, all appeals to the Sultan's better nature having...