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...John Singer Sargent, paid Paderewski $1,000 to play for her privately at home, entertained Henry James at tea (James described the effects of a chat with her as "absolute vertigo"). She wore diamonds in her hair, hung ropes of pearls around her waist, traveled to Europe, Egypt, Java, Japan and Cambodia...
...their own speeches, P.K.I, officials pressed Sukarno for elections at the village level, confident that they could win control of Java, which represents 70% of Indonesia's 104 million population. Party Boss D. N. Aidit suggested that Indonesia's 412,000-man armed forces be "supervised" by politically oriented NASAKOM ("guided democracy") cadres, which the P.K.I. believes it could dominate. That seemed all right with Sukarno. "Go ahead," he urged the P.K.I. "Go onward and never retreat...
...Soon it had taken over. The P.K.I, has forced Sukarno to ban pro-Sukarno but anti-Communist newspapers, is now pressuring him to ban a nationalist Moslem student group. So obstreperous have the Communists become that for the first time there are signs of opposition; in East Java, 300 have died in clashes between Communists and Moslems...
...lying by him 13. barres of silver; we tooke the silver, and left the man." Off Colombia he seized a Spanish galleon glutted with some 30 tons of treasure, casually allowed that he was "sufficiently satisfied," and then headed home by way of the Moluccas and the kingdom of Java ("The French pocks is here very common to all"). And so Drake became the first Englishman to sail "about the whole Globe of the earth...
...swollen (412,000-man) armed forces, which this year will receive half of Indonesia's $2 billion budget. Gold-braided and grinning, the army chief of staff recently pressed a button on a Djakarta beach to lob an Indonesia-built rocket a full 21 miles into the Java Sea. Immediately the army began boasting that it would have intercontinental ballistic missiles in no time...