Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plague have led to outright famine. Irked by Sukarno's "Crush Malaysia" campaign, the U.S. is phasing out its aid (total to date: $896 million), last month shipped Indonesia its final 40,000 tons of American rice. Blustered Sukarno: "To hell with aid!" Turning hopefully to Holland, Indonesia last year resumed diplomatic relations, which had been broken in 1960 during Sukarno's noisy, successful cam paign to oust the Dutch from West New Guinea. The trade-minded Dutch, who are more interested in new profits than in salvaging old concessions, were eager to do business again. Last fall...
...well. For the privileged few with $3,500 Holland & Holland rifles and fat letters of credit, Africa is still the place for those snarling big cats and tawny skins to adorn a bare den wall. But nowadays, for U.S. sportsmen with low budgets and yens for high adventure, there's Costa Rica right next door...
...EUROPE, for example, Johnson took a tough line with the Communists, who were holding captive three U.S. Air Force officers. The flyers-1st Lieut. Harold W. Welch, 24, Captain David I. Holland, 35, and Captain Melvin J. Kessler, 30-parachuted into Communist East Germany after their unarmed reconnaissance plane strayed beyond the West German border and was shot down. Day after day, the U.S. lodged protests with Soviet officials in Washington, Berlin and Moscow, but the Russians were not listening. At length Johnson warned Moscow that "further delay in the release and return of the crewmen clearly jeopardizes possibilities...
...Communists play the game, there is no give and take. With a state monopoly on all imports and exports in their own countries, they bar the door against any Western price competition in Iron Curtain ports. The merchant fleets of West Germany, Britain, France, Belgium and Holland are feeling the pinch, and fear that it can only get worse. The Poles and East Germans have modern fleets totaling more than 300 ships, and they plan to double that number by 1970. The Soviet Union has 1,280 vessels, and it, too, is aiming at twice as many...
...none too happy at the prospect of installing the present Spanish Pretender, Don Juan, went out of his way to welcome Carlos back to Madrid. The threat of competition from the Carlists would give Franco a useful lever to make disdainful Don Juan more receptive to his wishes. In Holland, all this maneuvering only served to increase the fear that Princess Irene and the whole House of Orange might one day become a tool in a Spanish struggle for power...