Word: sumatra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swarms of Chinese to Nanyang as indentured coolies to work in tin mines and on plantations, to load ships and build roads and carry burdens. Each new trading city-Penang, Singapore, Malacca, Hong Kong-became heavily Chinese. As agents and middlemen, the ubiquitous Chinese followed the Dutch troops into Sumatra, Borneo and Celebes, the British into Burma, the French into Indo-China. Even in Thailand, which never became a European colony, the Chinese were advisers to the king, and controlled the nation's commerce...
...trouble in the Middle East. Though it has large holdings in Louisiana and Canada, 40% of Texaco's oil comes from a 30% interest in Saudi Arabia's Arabian American Oil Co., a 7% interest in the Iranian consortium, and a 50% interest in Caltex operations in Sumatra and elsewhere. To back them up, Texaco bought Trinidad Oil Co. Ltd. in 1956, last year added Seaboard Oil Co. Now with Superior, it gets big production in Venezuela's rich Maracaibo field, crude-oil reserves of well over 300 million bbl., plus excellent drilling prospects in Texas...
There is the orang pendek, for instance -a smallish, hairy ape-man who lives (perhaps) in Sumatra. Natives take the orang pendek as a matter of course, and Dutchmen say they have seen them. Heuvelmans suspects that they are related to the nittaewo, the semi-aborigines of Ceylon, who were killed off about 1800 by the primitive Veddahs. Heuvelmans' theory is that much of southern Asia was inhabited long ago by small, hairy descendants of Java's Pithecanthropus erectus, who were largely exterminated by the invading humans. The orang pendeks, hiding deep in Sumatran jungles...
...attack. Last April General Nasution, who is not so much pro-Western as pro his country's independence, banned the biggest Red weapon-mass demonstrations- and followed it with an order prohibiting strikes. When SOBSI recklessly decided on a test of strength and called a plantation strike in Sumatra, the army swiftly broke it, arrested eight union officers. In central Java last month, police jailed eleven known Communists, seized caches of small arms and munitions...
Kiss for the Girls. The Reds turned for help to President Sukarno, whom they had strongly supported-and tried to make their captive-when the Sumatra colonels began their 1958 right-wing revolt in the Outer Islands. Two years ago, dissatisfied with the role of Indonesia's three leading non-Communist parties, Sukarno had called for Communist participation in the government because "a horse can't stand on three legs." Now an officer boasts that the army "will provide the fourth...