Word: sumatran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sumatrans would like to bring back to power Mohammed Hatta, 54, a widely respected Sumatran, who along with President Sukarno led the fight for Indonesia's independence from the Dutch. Distressed at the weakness of Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo's government, which flirts with Communism and tolerates corruption, Hatta resigned last month as Vice President of the country...
While the government fumed, the Sumatran army headquarters continued last week to dispatch nightly caravans of heavily guarded trucks to small northern ports where 16 small-tonnage ships waited to smuggle the rubber across the narrow Malacca Strait. The government was helpless: the army alone has the authority to stop smuggling...
...through G. Wyman Carroll of New Haven, a free-lance animal dealer who spotted a pair in the Surabaya Zoo. At first Surabaya demanded two camels in exchange, then asked for two llamas. Carroll made a counteroffer of two sea lions. Surabaya finally sent the two proboscis monkeys, two Sumatran gibbons, two black langurs and one Celebes phalanger. In return it got two sea lions, two ring-tailed and two spider monkeys, and two U.S. raccoons...
...Nationalists, like Pavlov's one-track-minded dogs, preferred to bark at the Dutch rather than bite into the current issues. In a remote Sumatran village a Nationalist screamed: "Politically you are free, economically you are not. Everything is still Dutch. You are guests in your own home...