Word: djakarta
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...fifth most populous nation have made the U.S. especially patient in dealing with the exasperating President Sukarno. But as he and the Indonesian Communist Party (P.K.I.) have grown increasingly violent in recent months, U.S. patience has worn thin. Last week President Johnson dispatched Veteran Diplomat Ellsworth Bunker, 70, to Djakarta to see what is left to save in Indonesian-American relations...
...property or people. Do not cause damage," lectured Indonesia's President Sukarno to a group of university students. It seemed a strange note to strike, in view of the fact that four times in the past three months Sukarno had permitted Indonesian mobs to storm USIS offices in Djakarta, Surabaya and Medan, smashing windows, ripping down American flags, burning thousands of books...
...that odd, oral simile Chen neglected to say who was the teeth and who was merely the lip. But Peking's friends provided plenty of lip service. From Djakarta to Caracas, mobs led by Chinese Communist and other "students" smashed U.S. embassy windows, burned cars, ripped American flags, winged inkpots, and howled for Lyndon Johnson's blood. Back in Moscow after his eleven-day swing through Asia, So viet Premier Aleksei Kosygin at least partly echoed the Peking line; he promised "appropriate" military aid to the North Vietnamese, and his propaganda machine threatened dire consequences unless "American imperialism...
...added up to a new Peking-Djakarta axis that raises some disturbing problems for both East and West. The Russians have invested $1 billion in arms and aid to Indonesia, only to find Sukarno plunging into the Peking camp. And thoughtful U.N. diplomats wonder if such anti-Western nations as Cambodia, Mali and perhaps half a dozen others might not be tempted in time by Peking's U.N., if in fact it ever gets off the ground...
Strategic Strait. Whether or not anyone buys the theory of collusion with China, eyebrows in the West rose at news of the surprise visit to Djakarta in November by Red Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi. Last week, while Russia was among those trying to head off Indonesia's U.N. walkout, Peking applauded it, ridiculing the world organization as "a vile place for a few powers to share the spoils." In any case, the objectives of Sukarno and Mao Tse-tung on Malaysia clearly converge: both want the downfall of its pro-West regime-a prospect that holds grave political...