Word: indonesia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...September. The Thai move has been enthusiastically supported by Singapore's toughly realistic Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, not out of love for China but from the feeling that good relations between Peking and Bangkok will enhance the stability of the entire region. The remaining member of ASEAN, Indonesia, will probably find the move of its neighbors toward China difficult to resist...
...surface. In several countries, bribes must be routinely passed out to minor functionaries just to get licenses or even make sure that an American executive's household furniture clears customs. Payoffs to government officials to influence their buying decisions are also common in such countries as Argentina, Indonesia and almost any place in the Middle East...
...stern penalties for bribe takers, yet some American executives say that any company seeking a Saudi contract must count on adding 10% for graft to the stated price. One U.S. executive tells of paying $3 million in bribes to win a $7 million contract in Iran. In Indonesia, the President's wife, Ibu Tien Suharto, is widely known as "Ibu Ten Percent" for the rake-offs she has reportedly demanded from businesses operating there. The South Korean government lately has openly asked foreign corporations for contributions to national defense in lieu of raising taxes; Herbert Telshaw Jr., senior vice...
...fired machine gun bullets and a rocket across the freighter's bow and forced her to stop. Radio Operator Wilbert Bock got off a last distress call. Then the Cambodians apparently located the radio shack and the radio fell silent. But the last message was picked up in Indonesia by agents of the ship's owner and relayed to the State Department in Washington...
...press conference last week, Ford forcefully struck the same note, stressing that the U.S. "can move ahead even in the Pacific ... It's my aim to tie more closely together South Korea and the U.S., to reaffirm our commitment to Taiwan, to work more closely with Indonesia, with the Philippines and with other Pacific nations...