Word: indonesia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gordon's report is probably the most exhaustive inventory of global health resources ever undertaken. It is also the most depressing, for it shows that most nations in Asia, Africa and Latin America are capable of providing health care for only a minuscule fraction of their populations. Indonesia, for example, has just one doctor for every 28,000 people. The African continent, which increased its medical manpower by 2% between 1960 and 1967, still has but one physician for every 9,700 individuals. Southeast Asia has a ratio...
...time of his appointment as U.S. Ambassador to Viet Nam in 1967, Ellsworth Bunker seemed the perfect man for the job. A coolheaded, persuasive negotiator, Bunker had calmed the thorny Dominican Republic crisis in 1965; he had served as a brilliant mediator in the bitter disputes between Indonesia and The Netherlands over former Dutch New Guinea and between Egypt and Saudi Arabia over Yemen. In Viet Nam during the tumultuous Tet offensive of 1968, and later through all the growing pains of Viet Nam's fumbling efforts at democracy, Bunker did nothing to diminish his reputation. Now President Thieu...
...bureaucracy barely seems interested. It has delayed interminably in setting regulations for offshore drilling, and other oil companies are unwilling to commit capital without them. As a result, portable oil rigs, which were destined earlier for Thai offshore exploration, have now been moved to other potential boom spots, notably Indonesia and Malaysia...
...months the sign of the banyan tree has been sprouting all over Indonesia. Planes dropped leaflets and kites that displayed the spreading tree. Be-tjak (three-wheeled ricksha) drivers wore polo shirts imprinted with it. Practically every civil servant in the sprawling archipelago nation sported a button emblazoned with the symbol. Radio and television stations frequently played a song extolling the tree, traditional symbol of security, as the place "to hail while expecting the blessings...
Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union also had a hand in trying to influence the elections. In the late '50s and early '60s, Moscow gave Indonesia an estimated $1 billion worth of military equipment only to see the army turn the weapons against the Communists in a massacre that claimed perhaps 300,000 lives in 1965. Since then, Soviet influence has been extremely muted. Russian efforts were confined to good-will visits to Nationalist Party candidates and broadcasts denouncing the Suharto regime over Radio Moscow's Indonesian-language station. Washington's influence was more direct...