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...Harrison Ngau, a Kayan tribesman in Malaysian Borneo, has endured imprisonment, house arrest and government harassment over the past three years. His "crime": helping Borneo's indigenous people try to halt the rampant logging that is destroying their way of life and some of earth's most ancient tropical forests...
When timber interests first came to Ngau's area in the state of Sarawak in 1977, several thousand natives lived entirely off the forests. But logging and settlement plans have reduced that number to fewer than 500 Penan tribesmen, who still cling to nomadic ways. Even these remaining nomadic clans are threatened by a powerful alliance of Japanese trading companies, merchants and local politicians, who continue to push logging operations ever deeper into the interior...
...denude the remaining forests of their commercial timber within as little as seven years. Local officials have given loggers access to an estimated 95% of Sarawak's forests that are outside existing or proposed parks and protected areas. Even those tracts are coveted by corrupt politicians. According to Harrison Ngau, a Sarawak native being held under house arrest for taking part in antilogging protests, some forests have been excised from protected lands to open them up to the lumbermen...
...Chungking, Chang Kia-ngau, close adviser to the Generalissimo and his chief economic expert at the Changchun negotiations, announced: "The taking over of the Northeast will proceed smoothly. Russian authorities have expressed their willingness to extend help...
...Chiang Kai-shek's elder son, who has a Russian wife and used to be at odds with his father, but is now one of the National Government's up-&-coming younger men and the Foreign Affairs Commissioner for the Northeast. A third was liberal Chang Kia-ngau, a Shanghai banker and ex-Minister of Communications, who has become one of the Generalissimo's close advisers. The Russian conferees were headed by their Far East commanders, Marshal Alexander M. Vasilevsky and Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky. Vague reports said the talks were "most cordial...