Word: kupang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve-year-old war orphan who had managed to survive the Japanese occupation of his native Timor and found work as a menial in the kitchen of the Kupang airport. Nobody wanted...
Year by Year. For three months doctors and nurses in the Darwin hospital tended the boy that everyone came to know as "the Kupang Kid." Then the government, whose "white Australia" policy bars Asian immigrants, brusquely announced that, once restored to health, Bas Wie would be sent back to Timor. Darwin citizens bombarded the Immigration Minister with protests. "A kid with guts like that," said one, "needs encouragement." Yielding to pressure, the government gave Bas Wie a one-year certificate of exemption. Each year after that the certificate was renewed...
This week Bas Wie achieves at last the permanence he has long sought. Making a rare exception in its immigration policy against admitting Asians, the Australian government at last decided to give the Kupang Kid his naturalization papers. "We're proud," said one official, "to have him as an Australian...