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...losing millions of tax dollars in illegally exported rubber, the Indonesian government early this year assigned its best investigators to track down the culprits. The trail soon took an embarrassing turn. The chief smuggler-and the proprietor of a neat little fleet that regularly plied the straits between Sumatra and Malaya -turned out to be the Indonesian army. What was worse, the army 1) freely admitted it. 2) boldly declined to stop it. "We smuggle rubber," said a ranking officer. "So what? We have to live...
...army is well trained, high-spirited and bigger than the nation can comfortably afford. Since 1952 the army has had to fend for itself, living haphazardly on inadequate special appropriations because no government has lasted long enough in office to get a budget through Parliament. Army forces in north Sumatra found smuggling a practical solution to the budget gap. Rubber smuggling is big business: last year Malaya officially bought five times as much rubber from Indonesia as Indonesia officially exported. It was also profitable: the army acknowledged having earned...
...University of Michigan's round, bouncy Harley Harris Bartlett, 70, director of the university's botanical gardens and one of the top botanists in the U.S. Bartlett scoured Formosa, Sumatra, Mexico, Guatemala, British Honduras and the Philippines for his botanical specimens, but to a large part of the university his chief claim to fame rested closer to home. He kept open house for his students, helped so many with their problems (and their bills) that hundreds of Michigan men and women came to know him as "Uncle Harley"-a typically absent-minded bachelor professor with a penchant...
...safe. His house in Hasbrouck Heights, N.J. was ringed all day and half the night by gazing girldom. Originally white, its sides were soon smeared with lipstick. Sometimes the girls made human ladders and peered into his bedroom, and when he got a haircut the clippings were claimed. When Sumatra was bombed bobby-soxers panicked...
...Formosa. It is also crucial to the whole area of Southeast Asia. Scattered from clattering, neon-bright Hong Kong to Saigon's gaudy Chinese city of Cholon, from stilt houses and river boats along Bangkok's green canals to high-walled compounds in Djakarta and Siantar in Sumatra, from bamboo slums to sleek modern apartments in Singapore, live 12 million Chinese. For them, Chiang and Formosa are the only counter to the pull of Communist China on their loyalty...