Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local elections, Indonesia's capital city of Djakarta (pop. 4,000,000) voted in a new municipal council. Two years ago, in Indonesia's first general election, the Communists ran a poor fourth in Djakarta. This time, trading on Sukarno's almost mystic hold over the Indonesian masses, the Reds increased their vote from 96,000 to 135,000, ran second only to the powerful Masjumi (Moslem) Party. Said Surabaya's widely-read Dwaja Post: "This is a bitter lesson in peaceful co-existence...
...Gandhi to helping spread the vidyapeeths (rural universities) in Mysore and other states. In Burma the foundation's work is so highly regarded that when Rowan Gaither visited the country, Statesman U Nu took the unusual step of declaring him a guest of the state. Commented one Indonesian official: "The foundation does not interfere in our domestic politics. It's helping us strictly on humanitarian grounds...
...Sukarno. "The President of a big country with a big heart," cried Sukarno. Voroshilov returned the embrace, a 21-gun salute boomed out, Voroshilov admirers released a covey of "peace doves," and Voroshilov himself launched into a speech meant to please his hearers. He got as far as "The Indonesian people are well known for their industriousness," when the audience of several thousand Indonesians, knowing better, howled delightedly. Sukarno smiled; so without being quite sure what the joke was about did Voroshilov. After the greeting at the airport, the smiles began to wane...
...Sukarno and Voroshilov arrived at the presidential palace, a group of admirers swarmed toward Sukarno's Lincoln convertible. Jittery Soviet and Indonesian security officers ordered the police into action. Swinging clubs and rifle butts, the police charged the crowd. A police jeep drove head-on into one group of spectators. Enraged, the crowd counterattacked, were driven off only after army units used tear-gas bombs...
Sukarno and Voroshilov had already entered the palace grounds safely, but Indonesian Foreign Minister Subandrio was not so fortunate: he stumbled about, blinded by tear gas, while the crowd smashed the windows of his limousine. The rioters, whose anger was now directed at the Russians, ripped down huge Russian flags, trampled an enormous picture of Voroshilov into shreds. On the pillar of a white ceremonial arch erected in Voroshilov's honor one demonstrator scrawled the words: "Go home...