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...Sumatra, the second largest island in Indonesia, straddles the equator and points northwest into the rolling blue wastes of the Bay of Bengal. On the island's tip, in the province of Atjeh, live about 1,000,000 Achinese, a proud and irritable people, unshakably Moslem, the first Indonesians to embrace Islam in the 11th century and the last to be pacified by the Dutch (1904). Some centuries ago the Achinese were intrepid pirates, raiding Western shipping, and attacking fortified towns in quest of slaves, concubines and booty. In modern times they have been peaceful farmers, fishermen and plantation...
...next night the boat drifted to land, the island of Sipora, off Sumatra. One of the Javanese was killed in the surf, but the four survivors of about 30 days in the open sea were picked up by some Malays and nursed back to health. Later, when the Japs came. Gibson was sent to prison camp. Doris Lim, it turned out, had survived the sea only to meet death before a Japanese firing squad...
Then the Communists shifted their attack to the government's agrarian reform program. Three months ago the government police tangled with Chinese peasant immigrants illegally squatting in North Sumatra. Six Chinese were killed. Red China's consul was on the spot within the hour. His protest led to a National Front vote of condemnation in the Indonesian Parliament last week. With half his party openly against him, Wilopo quit. Probable next step: a government which will include Communists...
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...chose. In the 16 years since it was founded in a one-room office in. Chicago, the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has made itself one of the biggest names in U.S. architecture. Its billion dollars-worth of buildings stretch across the U.S.. and as far afield as Sumatra. What is even more remarkable, all their work is built in the rigorously modern style still referred to as "crackpot" by unobserving standpatters. Among some of the firm's major jobs: the Ohio State University Medical Center, a vinegar plant and warehouse for H. J. Heinz...