Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Underprivileged Indonesian children need all the love they can get, say the leaflets. But are 33 foster parents for one child too much of a good thing...
Though volcanoes can kill - eruptions have cost more than 100,000 lives in the past two centuries - they have a kindlier side as well. Some of the world's most fertile soil, like that on the Indonesian island of Java, has been created by lava and ash from volcanoes. The crystalline material, mostly silicates, is often rich ash only calcium and a variety of other elements. The lava and ash not only help the soil retain moisture but they weather rapidly and usually release valuable nutrients. Volcanic debris can also be used commercially as cement additives, as ingredients...
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 4, 1975 Demanding independence for the South Moluccan Archipelago, gunmen seize the Indonesian consulate, taking 30 hostages, including 16 children. Negotiations obtain release of some children. Terrorists surrender after 16-day siege, during which one prisoner dies, three are injured while escaping...
...military regime in Chile. The results are also more or less the same. Two old clients of HIID, Pakistan and Indonesia, ended up with the same economic structure as Chile, along with military repression. As a matter of fact, the military junta in Chile is following the Indonesian model, both in its military operation against the Left (the military coup in September 1973 against Salvador Allende was called "Operation Jakarta"), and its model of economic development (the cooperation between the military leaders and the economic technocrats, the "Berkeley Mafia" in the case of Indonesia, "los Chicago boys" in the case...
...things to which American universities are loyal. Harberger's friends are loyal to institutionalized barbarianism. They are loyal to a clique of bloody-minded military officers which mounted an horrific reign of terror against the Chilean people (in summer 1973, the conservative Chilean daily El Mercurio called for an "Indonesian solution" to Chile's political conflicts--that is very nearly what Chile got), and which today rules without the slightest regard for the institutional and legal safeguards of civilized and liberal nations. This clique even sent its secret police in September 1976 to Washington, D.C., a city dedicated to political...