Word: djakarta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guinea. (Says Sukarno: "I don't get it. The Dutch have given us the main building, but they still cling to the garage.") Organized bands of hooligans smeared blood-and-thunder signs on cars and the walls of Dutch-owned shops and Australian homes from one end of Djakarta to the other...
...Vickrey's three sittings with the princess, a real emergency developed: that was the day the hotel delivered his eggs soft-boiled. As Vickrey flew back to the U.S. with the portrait and McHale began filing the story of Princess Aisha, other TIME correspondents from Cairo to Djakarta were adding their reports on the emancipation of Moslem women. See FOREIGN NEWS, Beyond the Veil...
...boldest and best-known newspaper editor, Indonesia Raya's Mochtar Lubis, 35, has been under house arrest for speaking up against President Sukarno's drift toward Communism. Last week Sukarno's government took another step toward its goal of "guided democracy." On pain of suspension, other Djakarta newspapers and magazines were warned not even to mention Editor Lubis' name...
...Djakarta schoolboys filled the sky with kites, and shops, taxis and streetcars blossomed out with flags to mark the twelfth anniversary of Indonesia's declaration of independence from The Netherlands.* Gazing out on the festive scene last week, the Times of Indonesia somberly declared: "This is perhaps the bleakest Independence Day we shall be celebrating...
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...