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...Sumatra. Samudra's name wasn't on the passenger list at the Kurnia bus company's office for the Nov. 21, 5:30 p.m. departure. But another name immediately jumped out at the police: Arema. It was a nickname commonly used by those from the East Java town of Malang...
...revolutionary united front, presumably with the left wing of the Indonesian Nationalist Party, which is particularly strong in East Java. Encouraged by Peking propaganda calling for armed uprising, they set up schools for guerrilla training, and political indoctrination and established cells in such East Java cities as Surabaja and Malang. By early 1968, they controlled two regional guerrilla groups and 17 village detachments and began to look for bigger action...
Holland's huge Philips' Gloeilampen-fabrieken is returning to Indonesia and investing $6,000,000 in a joint venture with the government. British-American Tobacco will operate a cigarette factory in Djakarta, while Belgium's Faroka will make cigarettes in Malang. Scores of smaller ventures from candy to pearl culture have signed up. "The important thing," says Sediono, "is getting the first company to come in. Then competitors want to follow. For example, Philips' of Holland came in and now Siemens of Germany is interested...
...beheld what he described as "the most tragic face I have seen in the war." The place was Batavia's Koningsplein Railway Station. The face was that of a woman-one of 156 weary Dutch internees detraining after a 52-hour trip across the length of Java from Malang. Cabled Sherrod...
Nightmare Field. Malang Field near Surabaya was "a better job of camouflaging than anything we'd ever dreamed of in the Philippines." Before long, it was a nightmare field. From here the shattered remnants of the U.S. 19th Bombardment Group tried to stop the massive Japanese advance down Macassar Straits to Java...
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