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...hill") is an architectural jewel that Historian Arnold Toynbee ranked as the equal of the Parthenon. Very little is known of the people who built and used it, or of the reasons it was permanently abandoned in 1006 after an earthquake and the eruption of the nearby Merapi volcano. Covered with some two miles of bas-reliefs that depict the life of Buddha and the sacred stories of Buddhism, Borobudur is a source of immense national pride to Indonesia, even though Islam is now the religion of more than 95% of its people...
...real center of Communist resistance was among the fertile paddies around inactive but smoking Mount Merapi in teeming central Java, where economic dissatisfaction is helped by one of the world's densest populations. Somewhere in a lOO-sq.-mi. triangle centering on Mount Merapi, Indonesia's Red Boss D. N. Aidit was said to be hiding out with ten or eleven cohorts in the P.K.I.'s stoutest stronghold: the party claims some 1,000,000 members, 30% of its total, among the poverty stricken peasants in the region surrounding the sprawling city of Solo. In the month...
...Major Sajidiman, plotting the action on a U.S. Army map: "I am convinced that Aidit cannot escape history." So far, however, Solo's resident Napoleon has managed to escape the Indonesian army, and the odds are that he is busily rallying support for some sustained guerrilla warfare. "Mount Merapi is quiet just now too," warned one Soloist, "but watch out. Gestapu blood is still...