Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indonesian capital of Djakarta, the municipal government last year took in $6,000,000, a third of its revenue, from three licensed casinos, numerous slot machines, horse racing, greyhound races, jai alai and a local lottery. The Casino Pix, located on the 13th floor of the Sarinah Department Store, is hardly plush as casinos go. The clients are apt to shun tie and jacket for open sports shirts. There is no alcohol, no floor show, no music-but big winners are provided with a ride home to protect their cash. "Elsewhere it is the bandits who benefit," says Djakarta...
...army turn the weapons against the Communists in a massacre that claimed perhaps 300,000 lives in 1965. Since then, Soviet influence has been extremely muted. Russian efforts were confined to good-will visits to Nationalist Party candidates and broadcasts denouncing the Suharto regime over Radio Moscow's Indonesian-language station. Washington's influence was more direct: $18 million worth of military aid, including M-16 rifles, machine guns, aircraft and $500,000 worth of sophisticated communications gear to link Indonesian military commands around the country...
Almost every region of the world can qualify today as either a target of terrorists or a training ground. Even the tranquil fields of The Netherlands have served as a mock battlefield for a group of Indonesian separatists seeking independence for the South Moluccas Islands; Basque nationalists train secretly in northern Spain and southwestern France. Many countries dabble in terrorism, but five in particular have become large-scale exporters of insurgency. The five...
According to Petramina's General Sutowo, Japan now consumes one-half of Indonesia's oil, some 70 per cent of Indonesian oil exports. In late February, the Japanese entertained Sutowo in Tokyo, agreeing to a 30 per cent rise in price for Indonesian oil sold directly to Japan, in an apparent attempt to reduce dependency on foreign oil companies...
...fields, too, have proved fruitful. Over half the people of the Pacific islands of Oceania are now Christian. Virtually all U.N. delegates from the new Black African nations were educated in mission schools. In Korea, medical missions have trained over 3,000 physicians since World War II. On the Indonesian island of Flores, first visited by Divine Word missionaries in 1912, there are now 615,500 Catholics, 90% of the population...