Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidates, representing 172 parties, by 43 million voters who are more than 50% illiterate and speak some 200 different dialects, at 93,000 polling places in a primitive country that is 3,000 miles long and cut up into 3,000 islands. For the young (6 years), inexperienced Indonesian Republic, beset with a desperate economic crisis, five concurrent armed rebellions and a government only one month in office, the task might have seemed impossible...
Indonesia to Italy. The U.S. debut on the Danube followed a similar success a fortnight ago in Stockholm. There, the prize U.S. attraction was a handsomely furnished, California-style model home, filled with 370 appliances. Last week Yankee salesmanship was also proving just as effective at Djakarta's Indonesian International Fair. More than 30,000 visitors a day poured through the gates to see the first TV show ever broadcast in Indonesia...
After 18 days without a government, Indonesia got a new Premier to replace Dr. Ali Sastroamidjojo, whose Red-supported Nationalists fell afoul of the Indonesian army. In came Burhanuddin Harahap, 38, lawyer and onetime guerrilla who headed the Masjumi bloc in Parliament, Indonesia's strongest Moslem (and antiCommunist) party. Ignoring the discredited Nationalists, Harahap patched together a coalition of twelve other parties, and will provide a caretaker regime until Sept. 29, when Indonesians go to the polls for their first national election since becoming a nation six years...
Molotov Blushes. Molotov, getting into the act, took the Argentine ambassador and the Indonesian ambassador's wife out in another rowboat, but upset the boat when trying to beach it, and soaked everybody. "Molotov, you are a terrible sailor," said Defense Minister Zhukov, laughing heartily. "One should ride with you around the edge of the lake, not in the middle...
...unanswered question. Before anyone could possibly know what had happened. Radio Peking had laid the blame on "secret agent organizations of the U.S. and Chiang Kai-shek,': a charge which the State Department promptly dismissed as "preposterous.' Last week the Hong Kong government, taking the Indonesian findings at face value, said that "it seems probable that the explosive device was placed in the aircraft in Hong Kong." The British Foreign Office agreed. When the plane wa= serviced and refueled at Hong Kong, the British had kept unauthorized persons away from the plane. Among the mechanics, caterers and others...