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Although forgotten by the world, and never mentioned by Sukarno on his diplomatic junkets abroad, the rebellion against his rule still sputters on. Last month the Indonesian government announced that Brigadier General Achmad Jani had flown to the important eastern island of Celebes "to receive the surrender of 10,000 rebels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Cinched Shirts | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

Last week a spokesman for the rebels scoffed at the Sukarno government's figure of 10,000, said that scarcely "600 troops and their families" had surrendered after a scrap between rival factions among Celebes rebels. In turn. General Jani himself conceded that 30,000 more rebels remain active on Celebes. Rebel raids continue. Only well-armed government convoys venture out on the island's roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Cinched Shirts | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...north of town, government planes strafed gun positions while 200 paratroopers drifted down at the field's edge. Within twelve hours, the rebel defenders were in flight along the road to Bukittinggi, 58 miles away, and Padang was firmly in the control of Djakarta's Colonel Achmad Jani, who had learned his lessons well at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Flickering Out | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...ambitious, warmhearted, restless outfit. Anna, the oldest girl, was emotional, observant, quick to understand other people's troubles but a little helpless about helping them as she wanted to. She took care of the house, did the marketing, while her mother worked in a laundry. Her young brother Jani dived into the strange world of French school life, compensating with his intellectual triumphs for the bewilderments and pain of his social failures. The youngest girl, Klari-soon so assimilated she was called Claire-was most deeply influenced by the family transplanting, becoming vigilant and wary as a child, defiant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love and Politics | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...America, try to return to Hungary, symbolically find work in Paris when Franco-Hungarian relations improve. Just as the small foreign colony grows stable it is disrupted again by a flood of German refugees. Anna, as divided in mind as she is in nationality, rejects her German lover, while Jani is turned down by his French sweetheart and only Klari's international affairs work out happily as she gets the man she wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love and Politics | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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