Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...required under the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Hosokawa may unveil the scheme as soon as next month, the deadline for the end of the current GATT talks. Apprehensive Japanese rice farmers last week furiously protested the arrival of the Tanjung Pinang, an Indonesian freighter carrying Thai rice shipments imported under a special one-time arrangement to make up for a bad harvest this summer. The protesters seemed all too aware that the Tanjung Pinang is a harbinger of imports still to come...
Chrysler Corp. announced plans to sell Italy's Automobili Lamborghini, its luxury sports-car and Formula One racing-engine subsidiary, to an Indonesian business group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but it was rumored to be worth $40 million. In 1987 Chrysler paid $25 million for Lamborghini, mostly as a vanity nameplate; in recent years it has lost money. The buyer was Megatech, a Bermuda-based holding company owned jointly by Jakarta industrialist Setiawan Djody and Hutomo Mandala Putra, a son of Indonesian President Suharto...
...November 12, 1991 more than 200 East Timorese were gunned down by the Indonesian army during a peaceful March for self-determination. Pinto said this event drove him into hiding until he could be smugled out of East Timor by the resistance also sparked that formation of his group, which aims to educate the world about the present East Timorese situation...
...here to be the voice of my people who suffer under the rule of Indonesian," said Abe Herreto Soares, North American representative of CNRM...
When asked about possible benefits of the Indonesian occupation, Pinto said. "We get nothing but guns and death from Indonesia." The group called for the withdrawal of the Indonesian army and advocated a U.N. sanctioned referendum on the future of East Timor...