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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...
...Indonesian capital of Djakarta, the municipal government last year took in $6,000,000, a third of its revenue, from three licensed casinos, numerous slot machines, horse racing, greyhound races, jai alai and a local lottery. The Casino Pix, located on the 13th floor of the Sarinah Department Store, is hardly plush as casinos go. The clients are apt to shun tie and jacket for open sports shirts. There is no alcohol, no floor show, no music-but big winners are provided with a ride home to protect their cash. "Elsewhere it is the bandits who benefit," says Djakarta...
Risk of War. Sadat has called April "the conclusive month in which all positions will be made clear." Meanwhile, he is waging a persistent diplomatic offensive. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad has been hopping from Paris to Athens, Teheran and Moscow-and other Egyptians have traveled as far as Djakarta-seeking support for an Egyptian campaign to force Israeli withdrawal from occupied territory. United Nations talks under Jarring's aegis are stalemated. As an alternative, Egypt is considering a request for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council in which it could propose a measure condemning Israel...