Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Kremlin Palace by top Soviet leaders, treated to firework displays and riverboat excursions, exposed to agricultural and industrial exhibitions, loaded with honorary degrees at Moscow University, the beaming Indonesian President responded feelingly: "We shall continue to struggle and to make the whole world free from capitalism and colonialism." Later at Tashkent, under a shower of roses, he cried: "The friendship of the Soviet and Indonesian peoples is a friendship of fighters . . . The idea of coexistence will develop unceasingly...
Voice of the Past. Shepilov to the end attacked Dulles' proposals as "an effort to reimpose colonialism on Egypt," and held out against an innocuous Indonesian proposal for a closing communique, thus managing to alienate even his associates in opposition. Conceivably some of Shepilov's tactics were the result of diplomatic inexperience, and they hurt him with fellow diplomats who found him, at least as a table companion, infinitely preferable to his predecessor, "Stony Bottom" Molotov. Shepilov displayed a greater Soviet interest in exploiting the naked political possibilities of trouble than in solving the problem that had brought...
...prosperity alone that impressed Sukarno. "America," said he, "has not sacrificed freedom of expression for freedom from want . . . This American freedom of expression is called political democracy." Then, noting that he would soon be visiting Russia and Red China, the Indonesian President continued: "I do not expect to find-" Smiling, he broke off in midsentence and said, "I must be equal and fair...
...would be interested, Sukarno resumed, to observe material achievements in Communist countries, "where they have gone about this backward-they have started out to establish freedom from want and-" Once again he broke off, and this time a ripple of laughter ran through the 1,000 top-ranking Indonesian officials who made up the bulk of the audience...
Incensed by the discovery that it was losing millions of tax dollars in illegally exported rubber, the Indonesian government early this year assigned its best investigators to track down the culprits. The trail soon took an embarrassing turn. The chief smuggler-and the proprietor of a neat little fleet that regularly plied the straits between Sumatra and Malaya -turned out to be the Indonesian army. What was worse, the army 1) freely admitted it. 2) boldly declined to stop it. "We smuggle rubber," said a ranking officer. "So what? We have to live...