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...violence, while the majority believes in supporting President Sukarno in the hope that increasing chaos will boost the Communists to power. Meanwhile, the Russians are busy flattering Lenin Peace Prizewinner Sukarno, offering academic scholarships (100, compared with 19 by the Chinese), building and equipping a 200-bed hospital in Djakarta. In Cambodia and Burma, the Chinese Communists are ahead, capitalizing on their racial similarities and on large colonies of local Chinese. While Russian diplomats and technicians try to live in American-style comfort, Peking's agents sleep 40 in a barracks, eat native food. Avoiding the Soviets' impractical...
...though invited to the ceremonies, pointedly stayed away. But the crowd had another, more important complaint: though this had been the greatest Karye Pitra-Yadnje Palebon in memory, it had also, quite possibly, been the last. The old rajahs are dying out; the new, impersonal Indonesian government in faraway Djakarta is taking over. Lamented one onlooker: "There simply are not that many more important corpses to be cremated...
President Sukarno of Indonesia is probably the most footloose head of state since Richard the Lionhearted. Last week, as is his yearly wont, he took leave from his Djakarta palace and his lesser palace at Bogor, with its surrounding park stocked with small white deer, to fly off on a three-month junket in a chartered DC-8 (estimated charter cost: $600,000) to Thailand, South America, Europe, Moscow and Washington...
...hand grenade-throwing incident in the Sumatra town of Padang, nervous government authorities ordered all males to wear shirts tucked into trousers. Worn uncinched, the shirts too easily concealed weapons such as hand grenades. Declared the rebel spokesman: "Another month will mark the third year of our struggle against Djakarta. Our spirits remain high...
Most women in his audiences responded with happy giggles, but a few dissenting voices were heard. In Djakarta a pretty girl sniffed: "I can get a husband without Sukarno's help." A disillusioned matron observed, "Sukarno doesn't know his audience. The majority of Indonesians still have arranged marriages, so husbands are no problem. And I, for one, don't think a modern kitchen comes with Socialism." But there was strong evidence last week that Sukarno does know his audience, and especially his women. A poll was conducted to determine "the most popular man" among Indonesians...