West Irian
Britishnoun
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As a dedicated soldier, Suharto became deputy chief of staff of the army shortly after the Dutch finally withdrew, went on to command the forces charged with "liberating" West Irian from the Dutch.
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West Irian had only provided the occasion for a break they considered inevitable.
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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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In other troubleshooting assignments, he served as a mediator between Indonesia's Sukarno and The Netherlands during the 1962 West Irian crisis and as a go-between in the Yemen controversy a year later.
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In 1962, after a brief comic-opera war launched by Indonesia's former President Sukarno, The Netherlands reluctantly handed over West Irian to a United Nations caretaker administration.
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