Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many an old Djakarta hand is convinced that the Reds were not the masterminds. For one thing, Untung's clumsy and ill-planned coup lacked the slick organization one would expect from efficient Communist Party Chief D. N. Aidit. With 3,500,000 members, plus his large and increasing influence on Sukarno's policies, Aidit was doing well enough as things were...
...went on to observe that riots require a climate, a cause and a trigger, and while the leaders of student riots are often "emotionally ill," they require followers will not be found in "a healthy college climate." It is up to college officials, Dr. Blaine concluded, to give the students room to try out their new morality, but at the same time to protect them unnecessary harm...
Rumors flew that Sukarno was dead, seriously ill, in prison or in flight. But Bung Karno has spent a lifetime showing the world how to be a survivor. He has nimbly escaped innumerable assassination attempts by bomb and bullet, grenade and jet fighter. Insurrections against him constantly erupt in the Outer Islands only to be put down or neutralized. What made last week's coups different was that leaders of both the first coup and the one that followed insisted loudly that they were defending Sukarno against the plots of others...
...Congressional inquiry into the temporary suspension of funds. Speaking at a news conference in Chicago, Dirksen suggested that the Senate Committee on Labor, Education, and Welfare take up the matter and declared that he was "going to get to the bottom of this." Rep. Roman C. Tucinski (D-Ill.) asked the General Accounting Office -- the watchdog over distribution of federal funds -- to investigate the legality of withholding funds under the Civil Rights...
Officials in the office of Senator Paul Douglas (D-Ill.) felt that the whole issue had been "badly handled." "We didn't hear about the withdrawal of funds until the Office of Education announced it," complained Douglas' legislative assistant. "I don't think they informed anyone...