Word: indonesianness
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...ports where they hand over the rest of the exit price, then are ferried to a ship just outside Vietnamese territorial waters. At least two such vessels have been used. One is the Hai Hong, the other a 900-ton coaster, the Southern Cross, which ran aground in Indonesian waters last Sept. 21 carrying more than 1,200 passengers...
...Chomsky cites the massacre of 100,000 persons in the Timors by Indonesian forces as an illustration. That may well be true. But how many persons have known of the massacres of the Kurds by the Iraquis in recent years, or the Nagas by India, let alone the hundreds of thousands of African peoples in the bloody tribal wars in Central Africa...
Chomsky said that the American people are sometimes kept unaware of major international events. He cited as an example the massacre of 100,000 people on the Pacific island of Timor by invading Indonesian forces in the last three years...
...Western press failed to pick up this story because Indonesia is a Western satellite, and the press has been willing to accept the hand-outs of the Indonesian propaganda ministry, Chomsky said...
...step, he could impose some restrictions on Indonesian oil imports. But he is more likely to cut the entitlements fees further-perhaps as much as $3-giving the refiners more incentive to install the equipment needed to refine more sour crude into high-quality fuels...