Word: sumatra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From Saudi Arabia to Sumatra, from Nigeria to the North Sea, up comes the oil. And every day, 24 hours a day?at a rate of 30,000 gallons per second?the petroleum-thirsting world swills it back down in desperate, energizing gulps...
After centuries of living in utterly primitive conditions, the Mentaweian Indians of Siberut Island off Indonesian Sumatra faced a battery of culture shocks. First they got hold of guns to replace their bows and arrows and began shooting every bird and animal they saw, destroying the very wildlife on which they depended. Then these pagan tribesmen were themselves harassed by Muslim police, who cut their long, plaited hair and took away their beads. Worse yet, Filipinos and Japanese who were imported to work Siberut's newly opened logging concessions began dragging Mentaweian girls aboard their boats as easy rape...
...England's most famous contemporary explorer, the peaceful intervention on Sumatra was almost a workaday mission. As head of an unusual London-based organization called Survival International, Hanbury-Tenison has been aiding endangered tribal peoples for a decade. By his reckoning, what happened to Sumatra's Mentaweians could have befallen almost any of some 3 million people in a dozen countries round the world who pursue simple lives as hunters and gatherers or as nomadic herdsmen...
...certain parts of Asia, such as Burma, Sumatra and New Guinea, the winged bean is old potatoes. A sturdy, largely disease-resistant vine, it requires very little attention and grows with ease in rainy, tropical areas. The winged bean does more than just fill stomachs. Indonesians traditionally use extracts to treat eye and ear infections and cure dyspepsia; Malaysians claim a lotion concocted from the plant helps soothe smallpox...
...charge what the market will bear," says Indonesia's Sadli. Indonesia has special reasons for keeping its increases small. It sells most of its oil to Japan, where consumption in early 1975 fell 13% below 1973. Also, Indonesia's latest increase brings the price of Central Sumatra sweet crude, a product highly valued for its low sulfur content, to $12.60 per bbl., and China, which does not belong to OPEC, is marketing a similar crude...