Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chomsky said that the American people are sometimes kept unaware of major international events. He cited as an example the massacre of 100,000 people on the Pacific island of Timor by invading Indonesian forces in the last three years...
...step, he could impose some restrictions on Indonesian oil imports. But he is more likely to cut the entitlements fees further-perhaps as much as $3-giving the refiners more incentive to install the equipment needed to refine more sour crude into high-quality fuels...
...Amouzegar, LNG costs five to six times as much to ship as oil. And that does not count the formidable expense of conversion and storage terminals; the terminal at Cove Point cost $370 million. Algerian gas costs $2.37 per 1,000 cu. ft. to deliver to East Coast users; Indonesian LNG will cost, $3.42 delivered in California...
...payments. Adela gave excuses about how banks had lost her deposits, how Indonesia had frozen her assets, or how the C.P.A. in Djakarta had died, fouling up her accounting system. But then some began checking her stories. Her Panamanian company bore a confusing relationship to her similarly named Indonesian firm. A Swedish firm with which she said she was working real estate deals in Spain was not listed in any Swedish corporate directory...
Besides providing smoke cover for the troops, the low-flying Starfighters were deliberately used to make the hostages seek cover on the floor-the safest place for them during a gun battle. Authorities theorized that both victims #151;a 40-year-old man from Elst and an Indonesian girl from Groningen who spent her 20th birthday on the train -were shot when they stood up. But so effective were the terrifying roars of the jetcraft that the great majority of the prisoners instinctively dove for the ground. Summed up Air Force Major W.A. Blaauw: "It was a nice operation...