Word: sumatran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...live to tell tales of the marauding buccaneers who currently infest the sea-lanes of Southeast Asia. Piracy has become an all too real contemporary scourge for fishing and commerce across an expanse of ocean stretching from the Malay peninsula to the Philippines. Sumatran pirates constantly harass coastal freighters and fishermen in the Straits of Malacca. Privateers from Malaysia and Khmer Rouge hijackers from Cambodia prey on Vietnamese refugee boats drifting across the Gulf of Thailand. One Japanese cargo line considers southern Philippine waters so dangerous that it has ordered its ships bound for Indonesia to detour westward into...
...problem on the entire island of Java, where 60% of the nation's population lives (and where the density is 1,500 people per sq. mi.). Accordingly, the government is urging the Javanese to migrate to the less-populous outer islands. A highway is being built through the Sumatran jungle, for example, that will open up vast sections of the big island, which is 1½ times the size of Japan...