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...Indonesian guerrillas crept through the dense jungles of Dutch New Guinea last week, and it became clear that Indonesia's President Sukarno was at last going to do more than talk about grabbing the disputed territory that he calls West Irian. He also adroitly deployed psychological warfare: Indonesia broadcast reports of widely spaced new landings on New Guinea's coast and Waigeo Island, forcing the Dutch to spread out their meager defenses (5,800 combat troops). And by compelling The Hague to ship new troops to the Pacific on the eve of a big debate on New Guinea...
...Sukarno went back to his military preparations. More than 25,000 Indonesian invasion troops are now in training, and even young girls in toreador pants and green forage caps drill in Djakarta parks. In Hong Kong and Tokyo, Indonesian agents are shopping for the landing craft that Sukarno needs to ferry troops across 1,600 miles of sea to New Guinea...
...crushing blow to those who had worked for weeks toward a peaceful solu tion to the feud. With onetime U.S. Am bassador to India Ellsworth Bunker sitting in as moderator, Dutch and Indonesian delegates fortnight ago had sat down in a quiet room at a secluded estate outside Washington, fenced for three days about Indonesia's demand for control of what they call West Irian. But the Dutch still insisted on safeguards for the rights of New Guinea's Papuan native population...
Kennedy hammered home his thesis in three talks with Indonesia's showboating, leftist-leaning President Sukarno. He kept it up in talks with Indonesian labor leaders. He made no bones about U.S. ties to The Netherlands: "We fought as allies in World War II, and we have boys buried there." But he also reminded his listeners that the U.S. was Indonesia's friend when the emergent nation was still fighting to free itself from Dutch rule. "The U.S.," he said, "led the struggle for independence of Indonesia more than any other country in the world." At the University...
Ironically, the U.S. had withdrawn its landing permission to the Dutch planes before the riot began. In a clumsy display of indecision, the State Department reversed its earlier stand-in the "interests of a peaceful solution" of .the Dutch-Indonesian dispute, and possibly in the interests of Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who was scheduled to visit Indonesia during his good-will tour (see THE NATION). While news of State's reversal came too late to prevent the Indonesian tantrum, it was in plenty of time to infuriate the Dutch. "I don't understand this," fumed Prime Minister...