Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members are sending foreign ministers. "Deplorable," declared the conference's British hosts, who had been flattering themselves that their understanding with De Gaulle was rather good since Harold Wilson's visit to Paris four weeks ago, and had hoped that the French might underwrite a condemnation of Indonesian aggression in Malaysia...
Stalin called his tyranny "democratic centralism." The most irremediably bleak and oppressive of the European satellites, East Germany, styles itself the German Democratic Republic. For that matter, all the satellites are fond of calling themselves "peoples' democracies." That tag was adopted by Indonesian Dictator Sukarno after he gave up the patently absurd mislabel of "guided democracy"-which has now been picked up by Malawi President H. Kamuzu Banda, who explains blandly, "I am a dictator by the will of the people." Southern Rhodesian Premier Ian Smith, busy developing a political hammer lock to keep some 250,000 whites...
Indonesia's strategic location in the western Pacific and its heft as the world's fifth most populous nation have made the U.S. especially patient in dealing with the exasperating President Sukarno. But as he and the Indonesian Communist Party (P.K.I.) have grown increasingly violent in recent months, U.S. patience has worn thin. Last week President Johnson dispatched Veteran Diplomat Ellsworth Bunker, 70, to Djakarta to see what is left to save in Indonesian-American relations...
Very little, obviously. The U.S. has closed down its $50 million average annual aid program to Indonesia as well as its five USIS libraries, which had been repeatedly pillaged by Indonesian mobs. Though U.S. Ambassador Howard Jones and his staff are still in Djakarta, even the envoy's residence has been raided. The only other official U.S. presence is a handful of Peace Corpsmen, largely gym instructors. Sukarno has already taken over nominal management-first step toward probable confiscation-of American rubber interests, as well as the Stanvac and Caltex oil companies...
Last week Communist unions refused to let a Pan Am plane billet overnight at Djakarta, held up telegrams and mail to U.S. newsmen and embassy officials, and urged Indonesian servants in American households to quit their jobs. Whether Sukarno could or could not restrain them, the P.K.I, extremists, carrying coffins through the streets as they chanted about "our enemies the Americans," seemed determined to get every last U.S. citizen out of Indonesia...