Word: achmad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles north of town, government planes strafed gun positions while 200 paratroopers drifted down at the field's edge. Within twelve hours, the rebel defenders were in flight along the road to Bukittinggi, 58 miles away, and Padang was firmly in the control of Djakarta's Colonel Achmad Jani, who had learned his lessons well at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kans...
Against the debits of disappointment and disillusionment stand few credits. Rice production, for the first time, now equals the country's needs; illiteracy has been forced down from 95% to about 75%. Confessed President Achmad Soekarno recently: "Our accomplishments have been...
Three of its seven divisions promptly revolted against the Sultan Defense Minister while-to avoid charges of mutiny-professing continued allegiance to the chief of state, President Achmad Soekarno. Regiments fought within themselves and against each other...