Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racial bitterness beats even Birmingham, for despite repeated government efforts to crack their economic power, the Chinese-sometimes operating through middlemen to circumvent official sanctions-still control trade, agriculture, small industry, the black market and other forms of commerce. "Go into even the smallest village in Indonesia," an Indonesian army officer once complained, "and you will find one man whose house has electric lights and a refrigerator. That man will be Chinese...
Double Trouble. The return home of even a token contingent of Egyptians was achieved by the quiet diplomacy of veteran U.S. Diplomat Ellsworth Bunker, 68, who last year put together the Dutch-Indonesian settlement that handed West Irian to Indonesia's Sukarno. Last week the United Nations announced that the parties embroiled in the Yemen civil war had accepted Bunker's proposal for a U.N. observer team with a double job. It will make sure that Saudi Arabia ends its support of the royalist tribesmen fighting to restore Imam Mohammed el Badr to the throne he lost seven...
...over to Indonesia. Under the compromise, Sukarno promises to hold a plebiscite "by 1969" to give the 700,000 primitive Papuan inhabitants a chance to opt for independence. But as Bung (Brother) Karno arrived last week for his first visit, there was something about the way he and his Indonesian troops strutted through the streets of Hollandia (renamed Kotabaru) that made many wonder if he would ever permit the region to be more than just Indonesia's province of West Irian...
Under the terms of the Indonesian contract, an advisory team will work with the state-financed National Institute for a period of six years, after which the contract will be subject to reconsideration...
...first few months of the project, two American professors will advise the National Institute on the training of economics students. After this initial period, the Ford grant will also provide fellowships for Indonesian students to study in the United States and several European countries. Under these fellowships, an attempt will be made to acquaint the students with the problems of economic development...