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...tribute to Djuanda's personal political stature, as well as to his powers of persuasion, that the conference convened at all. Among those assembled were the rebellious army colonels who in recent months have staged a series of bloodless revolts in Sumatra, Borneo and East Indonesia against the central government and President Sukarno's plans for introducing "guided democracy" into Indonesia. The young colonels, headed by fair-skinned, 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual, put their faith in the one Indonesian whose prestige is at all equal to Sukarno's: Mohammed Hatta. Hatta...
...first President-and President again now-did not long survive Syria's humiliating performance against the Israelis in 1948. (Syria's one claim to military distinction was the capture of a small hill 48 hours after the armistice.) In March 1949 Kuwatly was ousted in a bloodless revolt led by a Kurdish colonel. Two more revolts followed and the second brought to power hard-eyed little Colonel Adib Shishekly, who favorably impressed visiting Western statesmen. But his ironhanded dictatorship earned him innumerable enemies, and in 1954 another army revolt sent him scurrying off to Beirut under safe conduct...
...screaming-making the tongues vibrate." The interview with Bourguiba was boiled down to 35 minutes, and the result was a candid, firsthand look at a handsome, vigorous personality who spent 27 years, half of them in jail or exile, freeing his country. After a warmup detailing his early, near-bloodless fight against the French and the ruling dynasty, Bourguiba said that French troops in Tunisia were "embarrassing" to him and "endangering the public order, acting as if they were at war with us or with the Algerian refugees in Tunisia." Although his answers in French were often cryptic in translation...
There is a grisly fascination to Author Shute's story of mankind's last days. Yet his characters seem curiously bloodless despite their courage and stoicism. It is difficult to believe that men and women would die as these do-without panic, self-seeking, sexual frenzy, or apocalyptic evangelism. But then it is also difficult to believe in the end of the world...
Sukarno's activities have long distressed Indonesia's democratic parties, and the chaos at the center has brought army revolts all over Indonesia, largely bloodless because the local commanders want to remain loyal to the central government, if only the government would prove worth its loyalty. In Djakarta last week, distressed by Communist gains and Sukarno's methods, sat Premier Djuanda Karta-widjaja, an able administrator who has been in virtually every Indonesian Cabinet since 1949. In his first interview with a foreign correspondent since taking office, Djuanda made it quietly clear last week to TIME Correspondent...