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...Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo's Cabinet had proclaimed a state of siege and war - that is, martial law - in three islands dominated by the secessionist rebels who have set up what they call the Republic of the South Moluccas. Other revolts are already in progress in parts of northern Sumatra, Celebes, southern Borneo, and western and central Java. Some government officials admit in private that even with effective and stable central government, revolt and rection will take years to overcome...
...almost a century the Dutch prospered in sugar and the slave trade. But when they turned their attention to Java and Sumatra in the East Indies in the 19th century, the western colonies languished. The long-term investment in the west did not pay off until 40 years ago, when vast bauxite deposits were found in Surinam, and Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo oilfields were opened. During World War II, Surinam provided 60% of the U.S.'s bauxite needs for aluminum. Huge oil refineries on Curaçao and Aruba processed 72% of the crude produced in Venezuela. With...
Married. Marilyn Maxwell, 32, statuesque blonde cinemactress (East of Sumatra) and nightclub singer; and Jerry Davis, 37, screen writer; she for the third time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
...Since its first issue to the present, I never missed a copy except during the dark period of our history of the Philippines when the Japanese occupied our country. During that period, my old copies that I had saved were inspirations for hope of final victory and freedom." From Sumatra, Reader B. Siregar wrote that he is a 30-year-old Indonesian student now taking an Australian correspondence course in civil engineering. To pay for the course, he began teaching his own class in bookkeeping and English, and in his spare time enjoyed that universal sport -fishing. Wrote he: "Here...
...East of Sumatra (Universal) is a hasty assembly job on the reliable prefab plot about a white man in the jungle with two women. It makes up for its lack of big-name players by superior typecasting, and almost succeeds in hiding the fact that its characters are crude studies in black and white by keeping them almost incessantly black and blue-in Technicolor...