Word: djakarta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indonesian capital of Djakarta, the municipal government last year took in $6,000,000, a third of its revenue, from three licensed casinos, numerous slot machines, horse racing, greyhound races, jai alai and a local lottery. The Casino Pix, located on the 13th floor of the Sarinah Department Store, is hardly plush as casinos go. The clients are apt to shun tie and jacket for open sports shirts. There is no alcohol, no floor show, no music-but big winners are provided with a ride home to protect their cash. "Elsewhere it is the bandits who benefit," says Djakarta...
INDONESIA'S "nonalignment" took on a strong Western tilt after the aborted Chinese-sponsored coup of 1965. But now Djakarta has led the Asian effort to pressure the U.S. into a military withdrawal from Indochina. Lately the Indonesians have begun to talk about normalizing relations with Peking...
Risk of War. Sadat has called April "the conclusive month in which all positions will be made clear." Meanwhile, he is waging a persistent diplomatic offensive. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad has been hopping from Paris to Athens, Teheran and Moscow-and other Egyptians have traveled as far as Djakarta-seeking support for an Egyptian campaign to force Israeli withdrawal from occupied territory. United Nations talks under Jarring's aegis are stalemated. As an alternative, Egypt is considering a request for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council in which it could propose a measure condemning Israel...
Sword Dances. Perhaps the most exotic welcome of the entire trip came in Moslem Indonesia, where some 50,000 Indonesians of all faiths streamed into Djakarta stadium for the Pope's Mass. A dozen warriors from Timor Island, wearing red headgear and waving machetes, did sword dances in front of the Pope's car as he was driven around the stadium track. An ecumenical procession, including Protestants, Moslems and Buddhists, bore an array of gifts -among them a copy of the Koran in Arabic. In his sermon, the Pope repeated once more his message of Catholicism...
...health of the Pope holds up, the heavy pace will continue: Western Samoa, via Pago Pago, on Sunday; Australia on Monday; Djakarta Thursday; Hong Kong Friday morning, and Colombo, Ceylon, Friday evening on the way back to Rome. What does he hope to accomplish in return for such a grueling schedule? "It will stimulate missionary activity and broaden understanding with other religions in the service of progress and peace," he said in his farewell speech in Rome. But more than ever before, various aspects of the Pope's traveling plans have been criticized by the press and even...