ocr: - but hula girls. Some wore colorful sarongs and agricultural first rubber, and then vast plan- silver necklaces: others danced in cutotts: and tations of oil palm, a tree: with mahogany-red T-shirts bearing ads for Coca-Cola or Yamaha. fruit that produces an oil valuable in food and Some seemed to enjoy the dance, but several soap (hence Palmolive). Since the 1960s thou- made it appear to be an unpleasant: chore. sands of square miles of virgin forest have been As the only outsider present I began to get burned to make way for oil palm. the uncasy feeling that the whole shebang had The Malays ...
