Word: hartini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other two best known are Fatmawati, whom he met in Sumatra in 1938, and Mme. Martini Suwondo, a young divorcee whom he married in 1954. Indonesians were scandalized by his marriage to Hartini, which, although legal under Islamic laws, defied the nation's custom of monogamy. They never accepted her as their First Lady, forcing Sukarno to send her to live in his summer palace at Bogor. Fatmawati, whom he has never divorced, lives quietly in a Djakarta suburb, rarely sees...
What flushed the ladies from their retreats was the state visit of Hartini, wife of Indonesia's President Sukarno. A well curved Javanese divorcee on whom Sukarno's practiced eye fell some eight years ago. Hartini is Wife No. 2 in Sukarno's Moslem household, for he already had a wife, two ex-wives and several children when she happened along...
While the Chinese Communist Central Committee, presided over by a plump and healthy-looking Mao, 68, was meeting in Peking, Hartini was taking in the sights of Nanking and Shanghai. At banquets and parades, the little-known Peking matrons plainly competed with her for attention. Had a clever government agent wanted a gimmick to divert attention from Red China's woeful economic failures, he could scarcely have dreamed up a better one. Mao's wife is a slender, handsome woman of about 45 who once acted in Chinese movies under the name Lan Pin, now calls herself Chiang...