West Irian
Britishnoun
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Dr. Wendell Phillips, a skillful promoter, won the only contract awarded to an individual in Indonesia; he paid a $500,000 fee and agreed to spend $17.5 million exploring onshore and offshore in West Irian.
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During the feverish, all-night attempt to draft a final communiqu�, Indonesia's Sukarno begged the conference to support his demand for West Irian; Morocco's King Hassan II urged his claim against Mauritania.
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West Irian had only provided the occasion for a break they considered inevitable.
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Billiton Maatschappij of The Netherlands for tin off the shores of Bangka and southwest Kalimantan; and a Kennecott Copper Corp. subsidiary for all kinds of minerals in West Irian, central Java and Sumatra.
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Indeed, the government of Indonesia's President Suharto, who commanded the forces ordered to "liberate" West Irian from Dutch control in 1962, long ago lost any real enthusiasm for the remote and unrewarding territory.
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