Word: centricity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Java-Centric." First of all. President Sukarno was eager for the government to take in the Communists, who held 39 seats in Parliament. Second, local politicians and military commanders all over the Indonesian string of 3,000 islands accused the government of being "Java-centric." Java, site of the capital city of Djakarta, has two-thirds of the country's population. But though Java accounts for only 17% of Indonesia's exports, it gobbles up a disproportionate slice (73%) of its imports. Sumatra, on the other hand, contributes 72% of Indonesia's exports in return...
East Indonesia's 12 million inhabitants have long been hostile to the "Java-centric" government in Djakarta. A sprawling collection of islands which includes Celebes, the Moluccas and fabled Bali, East Indonesia has spawned half a dozen revolutionary movements-among them the fanatically Moslem Darul Islam and the so-called "Republic of the South Moluccas." At the head of last week's bloodless coup, however, was no sworn foe of the government but one of President Sukarno's favorites-handsome, 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual. A onetime sergeant in the Dutch army, and a Christian...
...When, enveloped in a vast cloak and toying with a swordstick, he sat his 300 pounds down to dream on a wayside bench, passers-by "either take me for the village idiot or for one of Harrod's delivery vans." He liked to believe that his life was "centric," though it struck most people as eccentric beyond belief. He would take a bath, step out, and then step in again, shouting angrily: "Dammit, I've been in here already!" He would drop a garter on the floor, plunge after it, find a book there...