Word: adame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military seized the initiative in ending the costly demiwar with its neighbor. The mission to Malaysia, which had been kept secret in Djakarta, further undercut President Sukarno's already weakened position. Sukarno had apparently hoped to persuade the military to reverse the policy of Foreign Minister Adam Malik, who has been openly demanding an end to konfrontasi. But the fact that the "Crush Malaysia" commanders themselves undertook an independent peace mission seemed to demolish that hope. The military's action, in fact, buttresses Malik's position as he leaves this week for Bangkok to begin formal talks...
...bluff and bluster, Sukarno was increasingly out of date. Already overruled by Indonesia's new chiefs was the konfrontasi that Bung Karno invented. Last week Foreign Minister Adam Malik, who has the army's backing, agreed to meet in Bangkok with Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Razak. Malik's purpose: to end the foolish fight with Malaysia. Though Sukarno angrily advised Malik not to go abroad, Malik seemed set on his course. "The confrontation of the people's stomachs," he said, "is more important than any other confrontation...
EMMY AWARDS PROGRAM (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). TV crows over its own. Presenting the statuettes will be Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke, Adam West, Barbara Stanwyck, and the Carols Channing and Burnett...
Enough have left the pad to convince members of the House Education and Labor Committee that the program should be granted $250 million more than the $1.75 billion that the President requested for the anti-poverty budget in 1967. The committee chairman, Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell, is all for the increase-though not long ago he was a bitter critic of the program, complaining that big-city mayors were turning it into "giant fiestas of political patronage" and, mixing metaphors, that they were feeding "political hacks at the trough...
When Sukarno realized that the Congress might indeed dilute his already weakened presidential powers, he angrily summoned Suharto and the other triumvirate members, Foreign Minister Adam Malik and the Sultan of Jogjakarta, the economics chief, to a meeting at the Djakarta home of his lovely Japanese-born wife Ratna Sara Dewi...