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When revolt struck Djakarta last week, it seemed appropriate that President Sukarno was in the company of a lovely woman. He was with Morning Star, his most recent wife, a 26-year-old former Japanese bar hostess. Sukarno had left Merdeka Palace to visit her brown-walled bungalow for dinner beneath dozens of Indonesian statues. As the meal ended, word came of a military uprising in the city. Dismissing his motorcade, Sukarno summoned a helicopter and was lifted up into the night sky-and for four days, the flamboyant, hard-living leader of a nation of 104 million...
...Prime Minister Harold Wilson did the same and urged all Commonwealth heads of state to follow suit. Red China gleefully came out for Pakistan, and on a Karachi visit last week, Foreign Minister Chen Yi pledged China's support of Pakistan in repelling "Indian armed provocation." Indonesian students in Djakarta joyfully wrecked the Indian embassy, screaming "Crush India, the imperialist lackey...
...that cost the U.S. close to $1,000,000 meanders across the flinty desert for dozens of miles, waiting to trap rain that never falls. And in Indonesia, as one cynic puts it, the net effect of much teaching aid is to assure that "the anti-American signs in Djakarta are written in good English...
Rocky Robes. If Sukarno is ailing, he is certainly in no worse shape than his country. Food prices continue to soar. An egg that cost 2 rupiahs in Djakarta in 1961 now costs 170 rupiahs. In the past four months, prices have risen 50%. Sukarno is still grabbing for instant cures. When he was in North Korea recently, he was told that the Communists were making cloth from stones, and he has ordered his own experts to turn Indonesian rocks into textiles...
...followers are generally quick to do the Bung's bidding. In his Anniversary Day speech, Sukarno urged Indonesians to "wage a campaign against Beatle music, cheap literature and crazy dances." In response, a crowd gathered before Djakarta's police headquarters and made a small bonfire of Beatle records, comic books and U.S. westerns...