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...present. This time the French decided to give him not one, but two: a Matra Simca Bagheera sports model and a Matra Rancho cross-country station wagon. But the new Soviet President was not pleased with the color of the trim on the wagon's seats (tan) and its exterior (green). Mortified French officials rushed the vehicle back to its manufacturer, where assemblymen worked frantically on reupholstery (brown) and a new paint job (blue...
...Moluccans; increasingly, he found himself being either mocked or scolded by the tough young terrorists. Two mediation attempts by respected leaders of the Moluccan community failed completely. Mrs. Josephine Soumokil, 64-year-old widow of the resistance hero executed by the Indonesians, visited the train along with Hassan Tan, 56, a former education and welfare minister in the Moluccan government in exile. Their presence encouraged the terrorists, who greeted them with a minimilitary parade. The visits proved an extra hardship to the hostages: they were forced to sit motionless during the two meetings, which lasted six and 4½ hours...
Thompson's friend, Sooni Taraporevala '79, said the hot, humid weather makes her homesick for India. "Come on legs, tan!" Taraporevala exclaimed...
Scattered around town are various ghosts of the American presence. The imposing white U.S. embassy stands completely abandoned, guarded only by a couple of bored North Vietnamese policemen. Tan Son Nhut Airport-at one time the world's busiest-now handles only half a dozen flights daily. In one of the control towers, a costly piece of equipment left behind by the Americans continues to receive signals from U.S. satellites and dutifully churns out a daily photochart of the weather pattern for all of Southeast Asia; it will probably do so until it runs out of its supply...
...just sits behind his desk and opens up a drawer," says the regional manager of an American company. "You start dropping in 10,000-rupiah [$24] notes until he says that's enough and closes the drawer." Suharto, to his credit, has regularly denounced komersial-isasi jabátan (abuse of office). But the sight of generals and poorly paid bureaucrats riding about Jakarta in chauffeur-driven Mercedes limousines indicates that the warnings are not heeded...