Word: subroto
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...fourth day of negotiations, all the early smiles were gone. Said Indonesia's oil minister Subroto: "Perhaps some of our early optimism was a bit premature. The mountains are higher, and the valleys are deeper than we had thought...
...deadlock was immediately obvious when the 13 ministers sat down Sunday evening in a private hotel dining salon for a secret preconference dinner. While the delegates ate lobster mousse and lamb noisettes, Yamani bluntly laid out the Saudi terms. The stonewalling response by cartel hard-liners led Conference Chairman Subroto of Indonesia to confess later that little remained except to "get through two days of meetings...
...factions were kept apart by the Indonesians, who sat between them at all the meetings. Professor Subroto, the Indonesian Energy Minister, headed off a vote on including Iran's denunciation of Iraq in the official record by telling the legend of the man who must decide whether to eat a fruit, in which case his father will die, or not to eat it, in which case his mother will die. Said Subroto at the end of the meeting: "OPEC demonstrated that even with a war between two of its members, it can continue to function...
...They were backed by more than just their own determination. Bespectacled Liem Bian Khoen, 24, a leader in Djakarta's potent and demonstration-happy student organization, KAMI, warned that if no new Cabinet is named, "You shall see. We shall not just sit here," and Brigadier General Ibnu Subroto, army chief of information, agreed: "I hope that the President will give his consent. We have to deal with angry young men." On one point, at least, the students and the generals were in accord. Subroto announced that the new regime would be "leftist to the end of time, against...