Word: indonesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undeclared and mostly bloodless duel is being fought for the control of Indonesia's 3,000 islands and its 85.5 million people. The well-matched opponents are the only two organizations in the nation that are European in structure, efficiency and administration: 1) the army, under Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution, 40. 2) the Communist Party, under the leadership of Secretary-General Dipa Nusantara Aidit, 36. These days the Communists are taking a silent licking...
...Congress in Moscow last January, slim, supple Red Boss Aidit could boast the best vote-getting Communist Party outside the Iron Curtain, and he promised Nikita Khrushchev that Indonesian Reds would deliver 8,000,000 ballots if elections "were held tomorrow" (in the 1957 regional election the Reds became Indonesia's top party with 6,940,000 votes). All this had been done in a scant ten years, for Communist prestige in Indonesia was at zero after the Reds tried to pull a coup in 1948, which was easily crushed and its leaders executed. But Aidit had problems...
Kiss for the Girls. The Reds turned for help to President Sukarno, whom they had strongly supported-and tried to make their captive-when the Sumatra colonels began their 1958 right-wing revolt in the Outer Islands. Two years ago, dissatisfied with the role of Indonesia's three leading non-Communist parties, Sukarno had called for Communist participation in the government because "a horse can't stand on three legs." Now an officer boasts that the army "will provide the fourth...
Nest Control. In Indramayu, Indonesia, town officials announced a new price for marriage licenses: 25 rat tails...
...Under Secretary predecessor, Herbert Hoover Jr., found out more than once). Herter has won Secretary Dulles' increasing confidence, in the last year has been handed day-to-day direction of U.S. policy at the Geneva disarmament and nuclear-test conferences, in the critical Middle East and in Indonesia. He knows his job and he likes it, and for however long Foster Dulles may be gone. Chris Herter, subject always to the will of the President and unpredictable call from the Dulles bedside, will be the undeniable boss...