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...supplying planting stock for reforestation and parks and technical advice on reforestation, forest education, and other research programs. Clement refused to take an official government position but served as unofficial consultant in forestry and assisted in the creation of a field station for ecological research in the huge Zapata swamp...
West Irian is the Indonesian name for a California-sized island of swamp and jungle that the Dutch call Netherlands New Guinea (the eastern part of the island is administered by Australia, whose rights there Sukarno so far has not disputed). To add muscle to his speech, Sukarno has assembled an invasion army of 16,000 (backed up by another 100,000) on a small group of islands near the coast of New Guinea, which is defended by some 5,000 Dutch soldiers and marines. For air cover Sukarno can use 60 MIG jet fighters and 26 TU-16 bombers...
...dealing with the problem of subjective probabilities, he examined some decision rules. One problem of subjective probability is that the traits of the individual's system can swamp his probability judgments...
...tiny nation that Russia and Red China are using to work off their ideological aggressions is tucked away in a remote corner of the Balkans. Its estimated 1,700,000 citizens have the hard choice of living in the malarial swamp-lands of the Adriatic coast or in mountain valleys cut off from everything except the sky by the 6,000-ft. peaks of the Dinaric Alps...
...room for the use of its its own new Institute. Indeed, Radcliffe is about ready to drop its simulation of a University and concentrate entirely on creating a tightly knit College which will have enough individuality to offer a distinctive education in a Harvard whose growing intensity threatened to swamp the 'Cliffe only a few years...