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...determined band of 25 warriors from the Enga province of Papua New Guinea laid down their bows and arrows a month ago and set out along narrow jungle trails, carrying an 18-ft.-high wooden cross. Whenever they came to a river they could not ford, they stopped and built a bridge. Other Papua New Guineans braved mountain passes 11,000 ft. above sea level to make their long journey. Why had so many thousands trekked so far to stand in ankle-deep mud on a rain-soaked field in the town of Mount Hagen? One tribesman, in a three...
Robin Ette Bechtel, Kiunga Papua New Guinea...
Exxon's cash squeeze has been intensified by management miscalculations in a series of unsuccessful attempts to diversify. Examples: Exxon spent $857 million during the past five years to develop uranium, copper, lead, zinc and molybdenum mines from Nevada to Papua New Guinea. But the company has lost $383 million on these operations because of the slowdown in nuclear reactor construction and a fall in metal prices. After investing nearly $1 billion in a project in Colorado to develop synthetic fuel from shale, Exxon abruptly suspended the program last spring. Exxon Senior Vice President Jack Bennett says the company...
...Initiation of latmul men in Papua...
That work of persuasion was sparklingly successful. Though Afghanistan's new Foreign Minister, Shah Mohammed Dost, flew in to declare that the Soviets were welcome in his land, dozens of delegates from small and fledgling countries rose to ridicule the Soviet line. Asked Papua-New Guinea's ambassador, Paulias N. Matane: "Should we accept the argument, then, that President Amin [of Afghanistan] invited the Soviet troops to overthrow his own government and eventually kill him? I find that hard to believe." Pakistan's Agha Shahi, who flew in to co-sponsor the anti-Soviet resolution, was more...