Word: papua
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pastors. A leader of the popular "cargo cult," which preaches that some day a fleet of airplanes will bring the white man's goods to deserving natives, also invoked the Almighty. He assured voters that he had been nominated by God to be the first President of Papua New Guinea. A Bougainville Island sorcerer held a conjuring ceremony to make the election go away, so that the spirits of islanders' ancestors could then run the country properly. In relatively sophisticated Rabaul, Epineri Titimur campaigned as Frank Epineri Titimur on the grounds that all politicians should be Frank...
...seven primitive tribesmen from Western Papua were haled into a Port Moresby court where they were charged with improperly and indecently interfering with a corpse. A fellow villager had been killed in a family feud, and they had volunteered to dispose of the remains. Their method: to cut up the body, cook it in a well-thickened stew...
...geologists and businessmen all over the world to scout for new sources and bid aggressively for existing supplies. The first of two new high-level missions, headed by Wataru Tajitsu, chairman of The Mitsubishi Bank, Ltd., will leave Japan this month to search out new oil sources in Australia, Papua and New Guinea. Japanese crews are exploring for oil-or preparing to do so -from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Siam, in Alaska, Colombia...