Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Freeport operates one of the world's largest strip mines, on the Indonesian island of Irian Jaya. Its site contains, according to conservative estimates, more than $70 billion in gold...
...show the Muslim world and his subjects in Saudi Arabia that he is doing great things for Islam." The end result of the expansion is an ever-growing number of pilgrims pouring into a remote site for a two-week period, increasing the likelihood of tragedies. In 1994, 207 Indonesian pilgrims were killed in a stampede as worshippers surged toward a cavern for the symbolic ritual of "stoning the devil," while in 1990, 1,426 people died during a stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel that leads from Mecca to Mina. Although Mohammed bin Al-Suhaily, director-general of the Saudi...
...students said the group has spent a tremendous amount of time fundraising and obtaining permits from the Indonesian government...
...Indonesian students from other U.S. universities will accompany the Princeton group to help overcome the language barrier. While in Indonesia, the group plans to work mainly on mapping and habitat surveys. According to Busch, more detailed maps of the national park will help "figure out what is needed to save the tiger...
...hard to figure out is why it took them so long to come forward with it--and why Clinton's own statements have wandered from denial to ignorance to half answers. In January he said he had known nothing about Hubbell's being retained by the Lippo Group, an Indonesian conglomerate whose owners were long friendly with the President, until he read it in the newspaper late last year. Two months later Clinton conceded he had been aware as early as 1994 that such key political supporters as Texas businessmen Truman Arnold and Bernard Rapoport had given work to Hubbell...