Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Across the border in South Viet Nam, government troops continued to battle North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces in actions scattered across the country. Canadian and Indonesian truce officials, thwarted by both sides as well as by their Hungarian and Polish colleagues, were hinting at quitting the ineffective International Commission of Control and Supervision-a move that would all but destroy the unit. For Cambodia, Laos and South Viet Nam, peace seemed no nearer at hand than it did a year...
...doubt that Suharto would win the presidency if he went directly to his people, the fifth-largest national population in the world. For the former farm boy who turned revolutionary has shown considerable administrative ability since he seized power seven years ago from the erratic father of Indonesian independence, President Sukarno. Having saved his country from a threatened Communist coup, Suharto proceeded to rescue it from bankruptcy. His most dramatic achievement was to cut the annual rate of inflation from a staggering 635% in 1966 to as low as 2% last year...
...much political leaders, a common species, as something far more rare and precious: critics." The essays he has collected here may constitute their own persuasive evidence in behalf of Octavio Paz's priorities. The author once wrote a literary want ad describing the need for "an Indonesian Swift or an Arab Voltaire." He pretty well fills that job himself...
...hangs, like a banner, on the wall: an orange-gold cone hovering in a void of purplish red; an exhilarating surge of scrolling ocherous waves, speckled with jade and malachite green. Johnson is an exceptional colorist, both astringent and opulent, and his work-like many a Tibetan tanka or Indonesian temple door-makes no bones about its decorative aspect. Yet behind this seduction of the eye is a strange impersonality, as though Johnson's role in painting them had at a certain point become mediumistic-notes transmitted from outside. "The choice of a particular image," Johnson remarked to Critic...
Most important, Sproul in 1968 got one of the largest onshore oil concessions that the Indonesian government has ever granted-4.4 million acres. To finance exploration and development, he recruited some well-fixed partners, including an Allied Chemical subsidiary and Universe Tankships, which is owned by Billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig. Three months ago the group struck its first oil at an exploratory well...