Word: andi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago both difficulties fused in the revolt of 26-year-old Captain Andi Abdul Aziz, onetime paratrooper in the Dutch Indonesia corps. Aziz and his men, all recently transferred to the new U.S.I. army, were serving reluctantly under a Republican garrison commander in the state of East Indonesia. When they learned that the government planned to add nearly 1,000 Republican troops to those already in Macassar (pop. 85,000), Aziz and his men decided that their former enemies had gone...