Word: indonesians
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...possible. They inherited Papua from Britain in 1906 and took New Guinea from Germany in World War I, administering it in recent years as a U.N. trustee. Together, the two territories constitute the eastern half of the world's second largest island (after Greenland); the rest is the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya...
...their own private deals when Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani swings through major European capitals next week. Reports are circulating in Europe, however, that the Arabs are allowing international oil companies to beat the boycott, at least partially. The companies are said to be taking Indonesian, Venezuelan and Nigerian oil that is destined for Canada and other nonembargoed countries and diverting it to Dutch refineries. To make up the difference, the firms are shipping extra amounts of Arab oil to their refineries in nonembargoed nations...
...collaboration on 18 guidebooks to France and beyond. "G. and M." as some call the Paris-based magazine, exerts influence far beyond its 145,000 circulation. Its editors are currently dashing the chauvinistic notion that to be gustatorily gifted is to be French. They regularly grade domestic Chinese, Indian, Indonesian and Vietnamese food...
Among those who have been helped by A.I. are Ghana's former Finance Minister Joseph H. Mensah. who was imprisoned after a recent coup; an Indonesian novelist held without trial for eight years; and Rhodesian Journalist Peter Niesewand, who was first sentenced to prison and then deported for violating his country's rigid Official Secrets Act (TIME, May 14). A.I. makes an almost sanctimonious effort to remain politically neutral; individual cases are carefully investigated to prevent the organization from being used for essentially nonpolitical crimes...
...ineffectual presence of the four-nation International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS), created to monitor the adherence of both sides to the truce. The Hungarian and Polish commission members, who consider themselves Hanoi's representatives, have employed dilatory and obstructionist tactics to prevent the Canadian and Indonesian members from investigating reported truce violations. Last week External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp announced that Canada would quit the paralyzed, dissension-torn ICCS at the end of July. A high-ranking Canadian official privately explained that his government was tired of trying "to supervise a peace that is kept by neither...