Word: indonesia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constitute its biggest buyers. And the country's large and enterprising Chinese minority still threatens to cause trouble over the establishment of Malay as the official language. In East Malaysia - the Kansas-sized states of Sarawak and Sabah on Borneo's northern coast - Communist terrorists based in Indonesia harass rubber plantations and lines of communications, diverting money and manpower needed for development...
Disengagement. No one reminded Romney that Malaya was an East-West battleground before most Americans knew where Viet Nam was, that Laos nearly slipped under Communist control six years ago, that the U.S. presence in Asia encouraged Indonesia's excision of Communist influence...
...Foreign Ministers of Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore arrived in Bangkok ready to join with Thailand in the serious business of creating a new, five-nation economic alliance. But Host Foreign Minister Than-at Khoman decreed pleasure before business. He whisked the diplomats off to the nearby seaside resort of Bang Saen for two preconference days of golf and conviviality. It was a shrewd move. By the time the ministers sat down last week for their formal deliberations, everyone had done so much private lobbying, a consensus had already emerged. "We'd all been so busy implanting ideas...
...five. The first joint efforts will include such modest projects as tourist promotion and cooperative fishing and shipping enterprises. The new alliance differs from such earlier Asian nonmilitary groupings as the Asian Productivity Organization, Association for Southeast Asia, and Asian and Pacific Council in that it includes Indonesia-the largest and potentially the richest nation in Southeast Asia. And though South Viet Nam was not included because of the war, the five left the door open for other nations to join, when their desires and domestic conditions permit...
...Indonesia's Independence Day was fast approaching, but where was The Flag-that noble, faded, tattered remnant of red and white cloth that had been run up the flagpole once a year since Indonesia gained its freedom in 1945? It was in a locked cabinet, and the keeper of the key was old Father Sukarno, 66, who was still mad enough about being deposed that he refused to hand it over. President Suharto even sent a delegation out to the Bung's "retirement" villa at Bogor to appeal to his patriotic sentiments. Nothing doing, said Sukarno: "This...