Word: indonesia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Five years ago, Indonesian students joined forces with the army in an effective coalition, which eventually overthrew the country's founder and longtime President Sukarno, largely on charges of corruption and mismanagement. Now Indonesia's students are once again on the march against corruption. This time the target is their former military allies...
...nation's 1,000,000-man work force, became an intolerable burden. To offset the high cost of the welfare state, Uruguay began printing more pesos. In the decade from 1959 to 1969, Uruguay's inflation soared 500%, a runaway rate exceeded only by Sukarno's Indonesia...
...Japan, long an importer of rice, now has such a huge surplus that one company has taken to spraying rice grains out of pressurized nozzles in order to clean the blades of air-cooling fans. Other countries feeling the impact of the Green Revolution are Turkey, Malaysia, Burma, Indonesia, South Viet Nam, Afghanistan, Kenya, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Brazil and Paraguay...
Died. Sukarno, 69, founding father and first President of Indonesia (see THE WORLD...
Arab oil, which accounts for about 3% of the total that the nation uses. But other countries are dependent on the Arabs. Europe gets more than half of its supplies from the Arab nations, and Japan 91%. Despite new oil strikes in Indonesia, Alaska and the North Sea, the Middle East still has two-thirds of the world's proven reserves...