Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Indonesia, corruption is so family-oriented that in the early 1970s, President Suharto's wife Tien was known as "Mrs. Ten Percent." These days scandal surrounds one Haji Achmad Thahir, a drab Indonesian government employee who never made more than $9,000 per year in salary in his life. But relatives fighting over his estate discovered him to have a bank account of nearly $35 million. The Indonesian state oil company, Pertamina, has charged in court that two German companies, Siemens and Klockner Industrie, paid Thahir the money in connection with the construction of a $500 million steel mill...
Intianto Dwi Soekaimi, a 19-year-old Indonesian staying in Hingham, Mass., said he decided this weekend that Harvard students do work hard. "My impression is that every Harvard kid doesn't care how he looks," Soekaimi said, adding. "I think they spend most of their time studying because of their long hair, their beards and moustaches...
...photo of Tondguyan in the chair reserved for Iran's chief delegate. To protect its Oil Minister, the Iraqi delegation packed 17 guns at the conference. Some Iraqi aides wore guns even inside the meeting room in defiance of the security regulations of their Indonesian hosts...
...factions were kept apart by the Indonesians, who sat between them at all the meetings. Professor Subroto, the Indonesian Energy Minister, headed off a vote on including Iran's denunciation of Iraq in the official record by telling the legend of the man who must decide whether to eat a fruit, in which case his father will die, or not to eat it, in which case his mother will die. Said Subroto at the end of the meeting: "OPEC demonstrated that even with a war between two of its members, it can continue to function...
...most important information Barnett gave the Soviets concerned the CIA's Operation HABRINK in the late '60s. Moscow was then supplying Indonesia's President Sukarno with billions of dollars worth of military equipment. Indonesian naval officers, however, were selling some of the Soviet weapons, parts and manuals to the CIA. Barnett worked on the project under diplomatic cover. He may also have provided details on other covert activities he had known about during his directorate years. And as one former agency official put it, the KGB would surely have debriefed Barnett on CIA minutiae: "the weaknesses...