Word: djakarta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Chairman Mao Tse-tung's Red Guards burned the British mission, beat up British and Indian diplomats and attacked the fleeing families of Soviet diplomats as they boarded their plane. Mao tacitly approved the assaults. Indonesian officials also applauded the mobs that ransacked the British embassy in Djakarta...
Eight words in Arabic sum up the central belief of the world's 750 million Muslims: "There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God." Five times a day, from Djakarta to Samarkand to Lagos, this shahada (confession of faith) is recited by the devout as muezzins (callers to prayer) summon them to worship...
When backers complained about delays in payments. Adela gave excuses about how banks had lost her deposits, how Indonesia had frozen her assets, or how the C.P.A. in Djakarta had died, fouling up her accounting system. But then some began checking her stories. Her Panamanian company bore a confusing relationship to her similarly named Indonesian firm. A Swedish firm with which she said she was working real estate deals in Spain was not listed in any Swedish corporate directory...
...promises to be a busy intermission, filled with diplomatic talk and travel. Australia's outward-looking new Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, for instance, is due in Djakarta the end of this month to discuss expansion of a bilateral defense agreement with Indonesia. Doubtless he will also lobby for his own dream of a new nonmilitary alliance of Asian and Pacific nations, including China...
While Chang assayed Japan's position. Hong Kong Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan skipped across the South China Sea to Taipei, where he talked with Nationalist leaders and their constituents. Far East Correspondent Louis Kraar tapped sources in Singapore. Malaysia, the Philippines and Djakarta. Our Paris, Rome and Bonn bureaus reported on European reaction, while Washington correspondents covered the State Department, the White House and Capitol Hill...