Word: aidit
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...Saddle. The Communists would hate to see him leave at this critical moment. In recent months, Communist Boss D. N. Aidit has increasingly had Sukarno's ear; politically, Sukarno has become increasingly dependent on the Reds as his earlier supporters became disillusioned. But even before Sukarno left the country, General Nasution, who participated in an abortive anti-Sukarno coup in 1952, was moving like a man firmly in the saddle. Backed by Premier Djuanda and most other Indonesian moderates of all parties, he ordered all worker seizures of Dutch properties to stop immediately. All army leaves were canceled, troops...
...case dragged on and on. One judge, intimidated by Communist threats, quit in mid-hearing. At the mosque the Moslem devout tried in vain to ignore the clangor of Red ribaldry outside as they prayed. Life-size pictures of Stalin, Voroshilov and Indonesia's Red Boss D. N. Aidit were plastered on the mosque's walls. Then came the final outrage. In the room behind the coffee shop, the Communists installed prostitutes, even let them wash up in the sacred pool reserved for ceremonial ablutions. "If this sickening thing is permitted to go on," stormed one member...
...Indonesia's Communists this was indeed a fine konsepsi ("We stress our support," said Comrmmist Boss D. N. Aidit), but to Indonesia's powerful conservative Masjumi (Moslem) Party it was intolerable. "If the Chief of State considers that the Constitution can be lightly laid aside if necessary," said Masjumi Leader Mohammed Natsir, "then the people will inevitably look upon it lightly too. The result of this is that jungle law will prevail...