Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the cartel made a halfhearted effort to pass off the new price structure as a ceiling on the rising cost of crude, not even the delegates seemed to believe it. With world demand exceeding supply, nations appear willing to pay virtually any price. Said one Indonesian delegate: "We're faced with a shortage of oil that seems irreversible. It is hard to believe that prices can be kept down." The former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, James Akins, now a private oil-industry consultant, asserts, "The first time that any oil-importing nation offers a price above...
After centuries of living in utterly primitive conditions, the Mentaweian Indians of Siberut Island off Indonesian Sumatra faced a battery of culture shocks. First they got hold of guns to replace their bows and arrows and began shooting every bird and animal they saw, destroying the very wildlife on which they depended. Then these pagan tribesmen were themselves harassed by Muslim police, who cut their long, plaited hair and took away their beads. Worse yet, Filipinos and Japanese who were imported to work Siberut's newly opened logging concessions began dragging Mentaweian girls aboard their boats as easy rape...
...ports where they hand over the rest of the exit price, then are ferried to a ship just outside Vietnamese territorial waters. At least two such vessels have been used. One is the Hai Hong, the other a 900-ton coaster, the Southern Cross, which ran aground in Indonesian waters last Sept. 21 carrying more than 1,200 passengers...
...Chomsky cites the massacre of 100,000 persons in the Timors by Indonesian forces as an illustration. That may well be true. But how many persons have known of the massacres of the Kurds by the Iraquis in recent years, or the Nagas by India, let alone the hundreds of thousands of African peoples in the bloody tribal wars in Central Africa...
...Western press failed to pick up this story because Indonesia is a Western satellite, and the press has been willing to accept the hand-outs of the Indonesian propaganda ministry, Chomsky said...