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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...
...victim was pro-Communist Foreign Minister Subandrio, who held key positions not only in the Djakarta Cabinet's presidium, but in the Supreme Operations Command (Koti) as well. Abruptly last week the army bounced Subandrio out of Koti, stripped him of control over Indonesia's intelligence network. Suddenly it became clear that Koti was emerging as the key controlling body of the country, with powers in every field from economics to education. And into Koti's key post stepped General Abdul Haris Nasution, Defense Minister and No. 1 military strongman...
...Malaysia," but Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew welcomed it warmly. "Malaysia's friends may be our friends," said Lee, "but Malaysia's enemies need not be our enemies." Encouraged perhaps by Lee's response, the authoritative newspaper Indonesian Herald published an editorial reiterating Djakarta's "position of flexibility" on the confrontation issue...
...Djakarta last week, President Sukarno continued to resist the demands of military leaders that the Communist Party be outlawed for its sponsorship of the Sept. 30 coup attempt. Meanwhile, outside the capital in the hundreds of islands that form the Indonesian archipelago, individual army units and bands of violently anti-Communist Moslems were reportedly working to make the argument academic...
...last week Subandrio abruptly changed his tune. To the amazement and shock of an audience of university stu dents in Djakarta, he declared that the Communists' involvement in the Sept...