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...animal, he asked the aborigines about it, was answered with the word "Kanguroo" and never learned that the word meant "I don't understand you." After the near shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef, the Endeavour was badly in need of a drydock, and Cook put in at Jakarta (then Batavia). The two-month stay salvaged the ship but wrecked the crew. Seven men died of malaria and dysentery in the fetid port, another two dozen on shipboard as the Endeavour limped her solitary way around South Africa, back to the Thames and into the history books...
...various exchanges of aid. As one example of such assistance, the University of California sent a group of students to Indonesia to develop an affiliation with the University of Indonesia. Students at California are now attempting to raise half the money for a new $50,000 student center near Jakarta, and courses about South East Asia have already appeared in California's curriculum...
...Indonesian capital of Jakarta last month, businessmen complained that the government is throttling Indonesia's foreign trade, and accused officials of taking kickbacks up to 20% on behalf of the reigning Nationalist Party. Pressure on the Premier forced him to fire his Economic Minister. This still did not satisfy the opposition, led by the powerful Masjumi (Moslem) Party (Indonesia has the world's largest Moslem population). Their misgivings go deeper...
Died. Hadji Agus Salim, 70, onetime Indonesian Foreign Minister and delegate to the United Nations; of a heart attack; in Jakarta. One of the most influential figures in the Islamic world, Elder Statesman Salim was for more than two dec ades a leader in Indonesia's struggle for independence from the Dutch...
...stifling hot day last week, 50 excited matrons from 35 organizations jammed into a Jakarta living room to argue for four hours about what was to be done. They finally decided to write letters to the Cabinet and Parliament. As for 53-year-old President Soekarno, he merely issued a statement confirming his marriage to his new wife, Heriati Hartini Suwondo. Soekarno kept her prudently out of sight, though those who knew said she was a brown-eyed, black-haired Javanese beauty...