Word: djakarta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the past ten months, while traveling through nearly every corner of non-Communist Asia and some parts of the Middle East, I was truly delighted to find TIME almost everywhere I went, even in such places as Surabaya or Djakarta, Indonesia, and Pnompenh, Cambodia. Not infrequently, TIME was the only link I felt with the world outside the village or area in which I found myself. In addition, I was happily surprised to note the number of nationals in every Asian country who speak English and read TIME. In South Korea, where I served with U.S. Army intelligence...
Last week, as Sukarno's opponents had predicted, the Communists began to convert presidential smiles into the hard currency of power. In the first of a series of local elections, Indonesia's capital city of Djakarta (pop. 4,000,000) voted in a new municipal council. Two years ago, in Indonesia's first general election, the Communists ran a poor fourth in Djakarta. This time, trading on Sukarno's almost mystic hold over the Indonesian masses, the Reds increased their vote from 96,000 to 135,000, ran second only to the powerful Masjumi (Moslem) Party...
...Djakarta's Kemajoran airport last week Russia's aging (76) President Kliment Voroshilov was welcomed to Indonesia with a beaming embrace from President Sukarno. "The President of a big country with a big heart," cried Sukarno. Voroshilov returned the embrace, a 21-gun salute boomed out, Voroshilov admirers released a covey of "peace doves," and Voroshilov himself launched into a speech meant to please his hearers. He got as far as "The Indonesian people are well known for their industriousness," when the audience of several thousand Indonesians, knowing better, howled delightedly. Sukarno smiled; so without being quite sure...
...fell into Dick Nixon's "cornball" category during the Vice President's recent African trip): Don Carroll Bliss, 59, now foreign service inspector in the State Department and a hardworking, unobtrusive career officer who has done duty in Ottawa, London, Calcutta. Paris, Athens, Bangkok, Singapore and Djakarta during his 34 years with the foreign service...
President Sukarno's ambitious attempt to resolve his country's chronic crises by executive fiat got off to a crackling start last week beneath the lofty colonial ceilings of the summer palace at Bogor, 30 miles up in the Javanese hills from the sweltering capital of Djakarta...