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...binding. Immediately, Indonesia submitted to the U.N. its claim to ad minister West New Guinea all by itself. Indonesia's case was woefully weak: it has never had control of the land; its people are of different stock and have shown no desire to join Indonesia. Besides, the Indonesian government is unable to control its own rebellion-plagued 80 millions. At least two of its Cabinet members, one of them the Minister of Defense, are Communists or fellow travelers; the administration is rotting from within. To give it control of West New Guinea, said New York Times Military Expert...
Last week, before the U.N. General Assembly Political Committee, Indonesia asked the U.N. to order the Dutch out of West New Guinea, and raised the bogus cry of colonialism-although Indonesian control would be just as colonial. Nevertheless, the cry had great effect. The Arab-Asian bloc sided with Indonesia; so did the Soviet bloc. By a vote of 34 to 14, the U.N. committee urged both parties to "pursue their endeavors" to solve the dispute, thus repudiating the Dutch contention that Indonesia has no claim on West New Guinea...
Died. Hadji Agus Salim, 70, onetime Indonesian Foreign Minister and delegate to the United Nations; of a heart attack; in Jakarta. One of the most influential figures in the Islamic world, Elder Statesman Salim was for more than two dec ades a leader in Indonesia's struggle for independence from the Dutch...
Actually she was his third. Soekarno divorced wife No. 1 for childlessness, which Indonesian women agreed was good and sufficient cause. Then in 1942 he married a charming 18-year-old named Fatmawati, who bore him two boys and two girls. But last week the emancipated clubwomen of Indonesia learned of wife No. 3. Perwari, Indonesia's leading women's organization, sent out the word to other women's clubs: President Soekarno had secretly married a 3 2-year-old divorcee with five children last June; his wife Fatmawati had not even been consulted, as Moslem custom...
...vodka was flowing like the Volga at a Moscow garden party last week. Russia's goateed Defense Minister, Marshal Nikolai A. Bulganin, hopped merrily from one cluster of diplomats to another at the celebration of Indonesian Independence