Word: djakarta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Padang airfield, eight miles north of town, government planes strafed gun positions while 200 paratroopers drifted down at the field's edge. Within twelve hours, the rebel defenders were in flight along the road to Bukittinggi, 58 miles away, and Padang was firmly in the control of Djakarta's Colonel Achmad Jani, who had learned his lessons well at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kans...
...rebels had hoped for the U.S. aid that Red China talked of, but had not got it. They had expected that Washington would cripple Djakarta by freezing all Indonesian funds in the U.S. until the fighting was over; they hoped for cooperation from the U.S.-owned oilfields in cutting off revenues to the central government; they thought that raising the standard of anti-Communist revolt would bring quick support from all anti-Communist nations and from other regions of Indonesia. None of their calculations worked out-only North Celebes joined them in their uprising against Sukarno. Their most serious mistake...
Things began, dashingly enough, with a deal signed with Communist Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia for small arms, jet fighters and bombers. In Djakarta. Communist and left-wing newspapers interrupted their anti-American, anti-SEATO tirades long enough to cheer wildly President Sukarno's new link with the Reds. Bands of young toughs smeared anti-U.S. slogans on the walls of the American embassy in Djakarta; Red-run delegations streamed up the embassy steps to present resolutions telling the U.S. to keep its hands off Indonesia...
...once, diplomacy did a new quickstep in Djakarta. As if anxious not to get too tied to the Communists or too detached from the U.S., Premier Djuanda honored U.S. Ambassador Howard P. Jones with a dinner at his official residence; Speaker of Parliament Sartono expressed his gratitude for U.S. economic and technical aid, and Sukarno's chief of staff, Major General Nasution, curtly put a stop to all anti-American parades and demonstrations, ordered everyone, in and out of government, to "respect the sound mutual relationships between all countries and peoples...
...Djakarta, President Sukarno made the most of the rebels' failure to rally others to their cause. The government invasion of Sumatra was not a "military" effort, he said, but a "police action against a group of political and military adventurers" who "want to drag us into one of the world blocs." From combat accounts, a police action is what it appeared...