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That caveat is echoed with some passion in Seoul and Jakarta. The South Koreans and most Southeast Asians are glad to see the Japanese openly debating the expansion of forces to defend their home islands and territorial waters, but no one in East Asia, including the Japanese, wants the U.S. to prod Japan into taking responsibility for other countries as well. On this subject, Ambassador Hahm of South Korea clenches his fist, purses his lips and raises his voice: "There is a suspicion throughout the area that the U.S. may be tempted to strengthen Japan as a surrogate. That plays...
...poorer, less developed countries (LDCs), mostly in their urban slums and shantytowns. Mexico City, already crowded with more than 10 million people, will swell to more than 31 million people; Calcutta will teem with nearly 20 million, and more than 15 million will jam Bombay and Cairo, Jakarta and Seoul. However, in a chilling Malthusian hedge, the study adds: "In the years ahead, lack of food for the urban poor, lack of jobs, and increasing illness and misery may slow and alter the trend...
...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 of Chile). Thus the choice of Professor Harberger as the HIID's director is not something surprising...
...full-scale Vietnamese invasion would also destroy the new, peaceful image that Hanoi has begun to project. To win friends and secure reconstruction credits, the Vietnamese have made friendly overtures to Communist and non-Communist nations alike. Economic missions have been dispatched to Jakarta and Singapore...
...Moluccans seek independence for their homeland, a cluster of 800 Spice Islands in the Indonesian archipelago, which they fled after the Dutch colonial empire collapsed in 1949 and an independent government in Jakarta took control. Even after 26 years of exile, the 40,000 Moluccans in The Netherlands have still not been assimilated into...