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...Soviet Union has already given Indonesia a total of $118 million in the form of ships, roads, steel plants and marine institutes (U.S. aid to Indonesia: $500 million). Now there is talk of a Russian-built naval base on Amboina Island, north of Bali, and Khrushchev promised a stadium seating 100,000 in Djakarta for the 1962 Asian Games...
...Army and Navy department store in 1952, Affandi has achieved global recognition as a rare original in a world where art fashion seems all too pervasive. Delighting in success, he happily toured the U.S. and Europe, but now prefers to stay home, except for occasional painting excursions to Bali. Much of his time is spent chatting with visitors in any one of five languages he has picked up in the course of his career...
During the Middle Ages there rose in West Africa a kingdom of warlike tribes that came to be known as the Empire of the Mali (rhymes with Bali). Among its greatest rulers was a crippled boy named Sundiata Keita, who survived the murder of his eleven brothers and ascended the throne in 1230, to build a realm that was eventually to cover what is now Guinea, Senegal, the French Sudan and Ghana. Last week one of Sundiata's descendants, the Sudan's Modibo Keita, was in Dakar, capital of Senegal, as one of the architects of a modern...
...Bali, "island of the gods," 100 barefoot maidens in sarongs swiveled up and offered silver bowls filled with flowers to Yugoslavia's President Tito, 66, and Indonesia's President Sukarno, 57. Then host and guest retired to the new palace at Tampaksiring, where at sunset maidens splash naked in Roman-style baths beneath Sukarno's windows. With food and music furnished by Sukarno, champagne and slivovitz brought in off Tito's ocean-going yacht Caleb (Seagull), the two Presidents and their wives rang in the New Year in memorable fashion. Dancers trampled the palace lawn with...
...heretical brand of Marxism, alternately tried to ignore Tito's presence, belittle it, or by indirection attack it. Peking's press and radio denounced him as a "running dog of imperialism," and headlined the claim: DRUNKENNESS IN YUGOSLAVIA RANKS SECOND IN WORLD. After Tito had left Bali, the Red-lining Indonesian newspaper Bintang Timur accused him of "carrying out a Western mission...