Word: dewy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps. But a better judge of the situation was Sukarno's Japanese third wife, the fetching Ratna Sari Dewi, who donned tight slacks to spend a Sunday on the golf links with the nation's new apparent strongman, Lieut. General Suharto (he plays; she doesn't). Word had it that she was playing a mediator's role between her husband and the new regime, attempting to talk Sukarno into giving in gracefully to the generals. Though his phone line was now cut and his helicopters were grounded, Sukarno still held out against the new, smaller Cabinet...
...streets, briefly closed its airport and cable office, disconnected telephone links with the outside world. Djakarta operators responded to queries with a singsong "Circuit not operating, emergency time." Only the students continued to enjoy their customary freedom from military interference. Sukarno's third wife, beautiful Japanese Ratna Sari Dewi, 26, left her luxurious mansion for another house after students raided it and dumped garbage into her swimming pool...
...former Tokyo bar hostess, it was indeed an impressive homecoming reception-an official welcoming delegation at the airport, scores of jostling newsmen, photographers, television crews-the works. But after all, beautiful, 25-year-old Ratna Sari Dewi has come up in the world since that day in 1959 when Indonesia's fun-loving President Sukarno decided to make her his third wife...
...Dewi, whom the Bung calls Morning Star, had come to Japan to sign a contract with a construction firm for a $3,700,000 hospital to be built in Djakarta with Japanese aid funds. But what seemed uppermost in her mind was dispelling rumors that Sukarno had lost control at home and was about to go into exile in Japan. "Calmness has been restored in Indonesia," she told reporters at the airport. "President Sukarno is in fine health, but he is so busy that he will not be able to leave the country for some time." A couple of days...
...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 made elaborate visible arrangements to accompany Dewi. At the last minute Defense Minister Abdul Haris Nasution said...