Word: java
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Officers and noncoms take eight-to 15-week courses in such subjects as village administration, agriculture, public health, guerrilla warfare and "Information Science"-a stiff dose of anti-Communist propaganda. In West Java villages, lieutenants teach peasants to read with king-sized letter cards, and sergeants demonstrate to housewives how to purify water. Knee-deep in the village streams, soldiers plant fish traps made from bamboo and rushes; in the paddyfields, noncoms and men with hoes help farmers clear irrigation ditches of weeds and snags. "The villages are where we won the revolution against the Dutch," says an army colonel...
...lining Indonesian government now blames the economic crisis partly on Russia, which has given $371 million in aid since 1956 but demanded that the money be spent on prestige projects that in many cases have yielded nothing but Red ink. A super phosphate plant scheduled for central Java has been postponed by the Soviet engineers' discovery that the area is poor in phosphate. The only visible result of a $250 million credit bestowed by Khrushchev in 1960 has been a voluminous survey detailing the need for more surveys. On projects only partly financed by Russia. Indonesia...
...pressed, its own claim, based on the working of guano deposits by an American firm there in the 1850s. Occupied jointly by the U.S. and Britain in World War II, the atoll supported a U.S. airbase. Britain had another Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, 200 miles south of Java. In 1958 the island was transferred to Australia, which still uses it as a western outpost of the Woomera rocket range...
...meticulous investigation provides some fascinating footnotes. Major James Devereux, the gallant U.S. Marine Corps defender of Wake, did not send the famed message: SEND US MORE JAPS. The message was idly tapped out by an unknown signalman. Nor did the U.S.S. Houston sink four Japanese transports off Java's Bantam Bay. They were actually torpedoed in error by the Japanese cruiser Mikuma, Toland reveals. General Imamura assumed that the Houston was responsible, and his chief of staff was too embarrassed to contradict...
...Leakey. 57. reports that he and his family last year discovered what he calls, using a phrase familiar among anthropologists, "earliest man." Leakey's earliest man is described as more than 600,000 years old. or some 100,000 years older than the Peking man or Java man. Says Leakey, a broad, rumpled, sometime Cambridge don: "My 19-year-old son Jonathan wandered across a slope during a pause in our other work at Olduvai and picked up a small fragment of animal jaw. 'You've got a saber-toothed tiger.' I said...