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...onto the defensive. Warning against the danger of Indonesia's suddenly becoming pro-Western (and anti-Sukarno), he pursued one of his own quaint theories to its illogical conclusion: "If they didn't try to crush us, the Western powers wouldn't be nekolim" (a Sukarno acronym for neocolonialist imperialism...
Subandrio's Refutation. But the army has coined its own acronym for the abortive coup d'état that killed six loyal generals and nearly toppled Sukarno. Gestapu-the initial syllables of the 30th of September Movement-is now Indonesia's vilest villain, as Sukarno's heir apparent, Foreign Minister Subandrio, learned much to his dismay. The army was now wondering if he did not have a role in the bloody coup attempt. But last week Subandrio tried to blame it all on the American CIA. "There are indications," he declared in a speech beneath tinkling...
Swooping in Seconds. What happened to Mrs. Placente was the first public demonstration of "Operation Corral"-an acronym that police flacks spell out as "Computer Oriented Retrieval of Auto Larcenists." The core of Corral is a borrowed UNIVAC 490, one of Sperry Rand's $500,000 "real time" computers that can analyze an event while the event is happening. Corral's UNIVAC has been fed the license numbers of 30,000 stolen cars and the cars of 80,000 scofflaws-traffic violators who neglect to answer summonses or pay fines...
...School to Aid Youth (so named to form the acronym STAY) teaches students who leave school to work but want to earn a diploma in night classes. Of 205 students who volunteered, a surprising 70% are from the top two tracks of the school system. "A dropout student is not necessarily a dumb student," says Project Director William Carpenter. "He is usually bored, maladjusted, has problems with his family, or needs money...
Asifa is the military arm of a group called El Fatah, which is a reverse acronym standing for the Arabic words Harakat Tahrir Falastin (Movement for the Liberation of Palestine). By itself, El Fatah means "Conquest." One of El Fatah's top leaders is Haj Amin Husseini, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Since the first of the year, Asifa claims to have made 13 raids into Israel to commit acts of "strategic sabotage," that is, the dynamiting of reservoirs and kibbutz buildings...