Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Israel formally handed over control of the oilfield to Indonesian officers of the United Nations Emergency Force. Two days after the Israeli pullout, Egypt formally took possession again. Within hours a tanker had been loaded and was under way with a cargo of the first oil from the lost fields of the Sinai to head for Suez in eight years. TIME'S Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn was at Ras Sudr when the oil to Egypt started flowing. His report...
...that's not Madame Butterfly in a fur coat. The fashion plate is Dewi Sukarno, 35, widowed fourth wife of former Indonesian President Sukarno, and she just dropped by Paris' House of Dior to sample a new furry creation. Now a Parisienne, Dewi has been working on a book about the Sukarno regime and its overthrow by the army in 1967. "No social life, no parties for me until the end of the year," claimed Dewi. "I'm just concentrating on the book." Well, during the day perhaps. At night the former first lady is still seen...
...Portuguese Timor (pop. 650,000) in the Indonesian archipelago, the colonial government radioed that "many dead bodies are lying in the streets" of its capital of Dili. Other reports told of barrages of mortar shells and a continuous small-arms crossfire. Fighting broke out when the Timorese Democratic Union (U.D.T.) seized power two weeks ago to forestall what it said was a coup attempt by the radical Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (Fretelin). At least 100 persons died in the initial outburst, and the toll was expected to go much higher. Lisbon was said to be sending...
Main Danger. Trouble also broke out in another colonial quarter-the tiny island of Timor (pop. 650,000), situated in the midst of the Indonesian archipelago. Last week one of the island's fledgling independence parties, using ancient Mausers, Sten guns and Timorese cutlasses, staged a bizarre coup, seizing the police headquarters and the radio station and demanding independence from Portugal...
...Survival" is one of the government's favorite words, as are "pragmatism" and "ruggedness." It continually impresses upon the people of Singapore their isolation and uniqueness as a tiny overcrowded island of predominantly Chinese people in a Southeast Asia which is predominantly Malay and Indonesian, thus playing on racial fears and chauvinism to win a measure of nationalistic support. A "garrison state mentality" is inculcated in the manner of Israel, which is a conscious model to those who call themselves "nation builders." The mind-set is reinforced by compulsory military service for males in an armed forces which receives...