Word: indonesia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fellows enjoyed seeing Morocco, learning of its culture and history. "Personally I don't think the point was to get something concrete," one Fellow said. "It really depended on the individual what could be learned. The problems that are faced in Morocco may not be the same ones in Indonesia or anywhere else. But we could appreciate their sites and programs...
...Asian nations have been afflicted with heroin. Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are largely free of hard drugs, thanks to firm law enforcement and strongly held traditional values. China, Indonesia and the Philippines serve primarily as transit points for shipment to the U.S. and Europe. Singapore, with its draconian antidrug laws, honest and efficient police force and intensive rehabilitation programs, reports a decline in heroin addiction...
Successful as the maneuvers outside the ship may have been, they could not entirely erase the gloom cast over the mission by the loss of two sophisticated communications satellites. At week's end, NASA still could not explain why Western Union's Westar VI and Indonesia's Palapa-B2 had failed to achieve orbit, except to say that their rocket motors had apparently shut down prematurely before completing their scheduled 85-sec. "burns." The prime suspects are the bell-shaped nozzles from which the boosters' flaming gases are expelled. McDonnell Douglas, builder of the rockets...
...failure immediately confronted NASA with the question of whether it should go ahead with the launch of Westar's twin, Indonesia's Palapa B2, scheduled for the next day. Palapa is to be used as a telecommunications link between the 13,677 islands of the sprawling Indonesian archipelago. At week's end, NASA decided to postpone the launch at least for a day while ground controllers probed the Westar accident. If Indonesia requested a deferral until a later mission, the shuttle would have to bring the satellite back to earth. The added weight would speed the shuttle...
...Indonesia, a big oil exporter that was hurt this year by the dip in petroleum prices, is trying to keep its $24 billion foreign debt from ballooning. The country has devalued its currency by 28% to reduce imports and postponed several industrial projects, including petrochemical plants...