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...were plotting a comeback. So often was the message repeated that most Indonesians came to pay it scant attention. This month the government produced evidence that even the most hard-nosed skeptics could not ignore: the army announced that it had broken up an incipient guerrilla movement in East Java led by surviving Central Com mittee members of the outlawed Partai Komunis Indonesia, or P.K.I...
...East Java authorities first received reports early this year of a series of kidnapings, robberies and murders in South Blitar, a barren and isolated region distinguished only by its long tradition of rebellion. The troubles were not linked to political activity until a Communist group staged an arms raid on an air-force installation in Surabaja, East Java's largest city...
...made the pilgrimage to Indonesia's temple of Borobudur, just outside Jogjakarta, ranks the soaring pyramidal shrine as one of the world's most magnificent examples of Buddhist architecture. Virtually untouched by tourism, the massive monument rises symmetrically from the serene green plains of central Java...
Digging Out. No one knows for sure who ordered Borobudur to be built. Inscriptions on stones point to the Shailendra dynasty, which ruled Java in the 8th and 9th centuries. But there is little doubt that it required armies of laborers to lug its huge volcanic stones into place from nearby mountain slopes, and another army of artisans to carve out some three miles of bas-reliefs. What caused the massive temple to be abandoned is equally obscure, although evidence suggests it was caused by the volcanoes that form the spine of Java. For centuries, it lay buried under jungle...
...later bought control of American President Lines and San Francisco's Natomas Co., which dredges for gold in the Peruvian Andes, owns chunks of industrial land near Sacramento, runs a West Indian oil refinery with Standard of Indiana, holds large oil exploration rights with Sinclair in Java and along the Red Sea. Such far-flung operations have made Davies many times a millionaire; his Natomas shares alone were worth $17.9 million on the New York Stock Exchange at week...