Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...analysis of the current situation in Indonesia and three book reviews complete the issue. Any attempt to comprehend Indonesian politics is welcome, and Henry S. Parker '68 describes accurately the mysterious events of the attempted coup last October. He presents the ultimate challenge faced by the Army leaders in control: to unify and nationalize Indonesia on a basis of economic and social progress. This is a goal which Sukarno, for all his chauvinism, failed to achieve. The choice of books to be reviewed, two interpretations of the Vietnam conflict by war correspondents Robert Shaplen and Marguerite Higgins and Richard Hofstadter...
Once in power, Dahomey's Soglo and the C.A.R.'s Bokassa immediately broke relations with the Red Chinese, whom they accused of meddling in domestic affairs. Colonel Bokassa claimed to have found evidence that the Red Chinese had been planning a coup against the government, and summarily packed the entire 32-man embassy staff on a Brazzaville-bound airliner...
Little Losses. By any standard, the transitions to military rule were mild enough. In the C.A.R., it was cousin ousting cousin and putting up the ousted kin in his own house. In Upper Volta, former President Yaméogo praised the coup. "Contrary to what people may think," said he in a broadcast speech, "my ministers and I are the first to rejoice in the way things have been settled." In Dahomey, not a shot was fired, nor were more than a handful of politicians placed under arrest. The only deaths in the three military takeovers came in the C.A.R...
Perhaps it did not dawn on Morning Star that the courteous smiles she got from her countrymen concealed a healthy skepticism. The Japanese, like everyone else, know that calm has by no means returned to Indonesia. Since the Communists' coup attempt last September, the army has looked the other way while Moslem mobs killed at least 100,000 members and supporters of Indonesia's pro-Peking Communist Party. And now the purge was spreading south from Sumatra and Java to Bali. Nor was it the press of business that kept hubby at home; Sukarno is said to have...
...ratings despite last week's shambles. Using the guest-star gimmick for promotional values, it will no doubt keep pulling audiences. After all, only Sammy Davis could have induced the world's most famous lovers to appear on television, and only he, apparently, can top that coup. This week he will be away, and in his place will be Sean Connery. "If that doesn't get us a fat Nielsen," says an NBC executive, "we might as well all give up and go to the movies...