Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nervous fence-sitter in the Dutch-Indonesian dispute over Netherlands New Guinea, last week found its perch painfully uncomfortable. By trying to avoid offending anybody, it offended everybody...
...gutter and injured an American woman. Ambassador Howard Palfrey Jones lodged a formal protest and demanded $5,000 in damages. In return, he got a mild expression of regret and a gratuitous lecture from Foreign Minister Subandrio to the effect that "the anger and the irritation of the Indonesian people" were perfectly understandable...
Ironically, the U.S. had withdrawn its landing permission to the Dutch planes before the riot began. In a clumsy display of indecision, the State Department reversed its earlier stand-in the "interests of a peaceful solution" of .the Dutch-Indonesian dispute, and possibly in the interests of Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who was scheduled to visit Indonesia during his good-will tour (see THE NATION). While news of State's reversal came too late to prevent the Indonesian tantrum, it was in plenty of time to infuriate the Dutch. "I don't understand this," fumed Prime Minister...
Intriguingly enough, the Red-lining Indonesian government now blames the economic crisis partly on Russia, which has given $371 million in aid since 1956 but demanded that the money be spent on prestige projects that in many cases have yielded nothing but Red ink. A super phosphate plant scheduled for central Java has been postponed by the Soviet engineers' discovery that the area is poor in phosphate. The only visible result of a $250 million credit bestowed by Khrushchev in 1960 has been a voluminous survey detailing the need for more surveys. On projects only partly financed by Russia...
...Guinea's natives, who slaughtered thousands of Japanese during World War II, vow that they will repel any Indonesian invasion. Says a top Papuan politician, Councilman Nicolaas Jouwe: "Indonesia keeps talking of Dutch colonialism, but at the same time they deny us our right of independence, our own future, our character and our flag...