Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another mini-crisis arose when the Reagan party arrived in Bali. The Indonesian government, despite quiet but vigorous pressure from the traveling White House, refused to admit two Australian journalists who were covering the presidential visit. The same day, Indonesia summarily expelled a New York Times correspondent, Bangkok-based Barbara Crossette. The reasons in both cases apparently stemmed from the government's sensitivity over foreign-press accounts of Indonesian corruption and human rights violations (see box). Deciding that it was best not to provoke a public showdown, the White House said it would pursue the matter...
...Indonesian Energy Minister Subroto gamely tried to work out a compromise plan to cut production, but several delegates refused to budge. "Not one barrel," said Venezuelan Oil Minister Arturo Hernandez Grisanti, who is currently OPEC's chairman. Even as Saudi Arabia's Yamani was calling for other countries to cut back, he was at work in his Geneva hotel room lining up a large order for new oil deliveries, according to Kenneth Miller, executive editor of Petroleum Intelligence Weekly...
...Indonesian schoolchildren recite at the end of their prayers to Allah, "two children are enough / Good for family planning body and soul / It's good for you, body and soul / It'll keep you well preserved." Women once doomed to uncontrolled fertility are now coerced into contraception. The explosion of reproductive technologies in the modern age, such as sperm banks and test tube babies, is a mixed blessing at best for women, changing perhaps the means but not necessarily the forces of (re)production...
...regulations. The Japanese are picky and often do not trust the quality of American products, much less Asian imports. Says Eric Hayden, an economist and a director of the Bank of America in Tokyo: "The Japanese are not going to take South Korean machine tools or Malaysian cars or Indonesian airplanes. Japan doesn't import that kind of stuff. The Japanese produce it, and better than any of these countries...
...Cislaw of Costa Mesa, Calif., seemed to have it all: suntanned good looks, natural athletic and artistic talent, and popularity. One night last March, while recovering from the flu, he took a few drags on a kretek, or clove cigarette, an Indonesian concoction of tobacco and cloves that has become popular with teen-agers across the nation. Soon he was gasping for breath, and by the next day he was in an intensive-care unit suffering from what appeared to be an unusually severe type of pneumonia. "He had cysts the size of golf balls in his lungs," says Thoracic...