Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relative values of crudes according to their sulfur content and distances from major markets. Algeria, Iran, Libya, Ecuador, Gabon and others rejected a proposal to reduce the differentials, which help them to charge the highest prices. Iraq voted to follow that majority. The discussion became so confusing that the Indonesian delegate had to ask what the question was when his turn came to vote...
...That hostility to foreigners was echoed during the Cultural Revolution in 1967, when Chairman Mao Tse-tung's Red Guards burned the British mission, beat up British and Indian diplomats and attacked the fleeing families of Soviet diplomats as they boarded their plane. Mao tacitly approved the assaults. Indonesian officials also applauded the mobs that ransacked the British embassy in Djakarta...
...scapegoat when CIA projects went awry, as they did with increasing frequency after the early "successes" of the Cold War. He covered his tracks well, and when superiors sacked other, more imaginiative CIA men in the shake-ups that followed such failures as the ill-advised backing of Indonesian rebels against Sukarano in 1958 or the doomed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, Helms was passed over; he was a survivor...
...must fight for the truth in our society, whatever the cost," Mochtar Lubis, an Indonesian correspondent, said yesterday at a panel discussion of four journalists at the Kennedy School of Government...
...INDONESIA. Its poorly equipped army of 180,000 men is used for internal security on an archipelago that includes more than 3,000 islands. It packs no offensive punch, the logistics are wretched and communications all but impossible. The Indonesian navy, one of the largest in Asia, has three submarines, eleven frigates and 22 large patrol craft. The air force has 28,000 men but only 32 combat aircraft-some of them out of service because of a lack of spare parts...