Word: indonesian
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Those words by Subroto, the Indonesian Oil Minister and the current president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, show how the once mighty oil group has fallen. Only a few years ago, whenever OPEC met, the world anxiously waited in fear that the petroleum producers were about to raise oil prices again. But last week at an emergency meeting in Geneva, OPEC struggled to avoid slashing prices once more. Rather than reduce the cost of crude, the ministers adopted a plan to reduce temporarily their production ceiling from 17.5 million bbl. per day to 16 million...
DIED. Adam Malik. 67, eloquent, energetic Indonesian Foreign Minister from 1966 to 1977 and Vice President from 1978 to 1983, a founding father of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and one of the region's most respected statesmen; of cancer; in Bandung, Indonesia...
...failure immediately confronted NASA with the question of whether it should go ahead with the launch of Westar's twin, Indonesia's Palapa B2, scheduled for the next day. Palapa is to be used as a telecommunications link between the 13,677 islands of the sprawling Indonesian archipelago. At week's end, NASA decided to postpone the launch at least for a day while ground controllers probed the Westar accident. If Indonesia requested a deferral until a later mission, the shuttle would have to bring the satellite back to earth. The added weight would speed the shuttle...
...pursuing 28 other slavery investigations, two of which will soon come to trial. In Tyler, Texas, three people are charged with forcing a group of twelve Mexican migrants at gunpoint to replant timberland; that case is scheduled for trial on Oct. 3. In Los Angeles, ten members of an Indonesian family have been charged with arranging the illegal entry into the U.S. of 32 other Indonesians, who were allegedly put to work as domestic servants in California for little...
Zeckhauser notes that before the Harvard visitors came, training at universities in Indonesia was so theoretical that "Indonesian Ph.D.'s graduate without the slightest idea of how to do anything." He adds. "We're starting to so think well...