Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitter blow, since under the old system they had been confident of winning the next elections and coming to power legally. But Red Boss D. N. Aidit was obviously under instructions from Peking not to go into opposition against Sukarno and the efficient Indonesian army under anti-Communist Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution...
...priest led two of the prisoners through the glare of truck headlights to the edge of the trench and then stepped back. Six rebel executioners fired, and the bodies jackknifed into the grave. Two more prisoners stepped forward, then two more and two more-and the grave slowly filled. Lieut. Enrique Despaigne, charged with 53 murders, got a three-hour reprieve at the request of TV cameramen, who wanted the light of a full dawn...
Added the navigator, Lieut. Colonel George Gradel: "Everything felt wrong. The aircraft had gone into a dive. Once that happened, it happened fast. Then I heard a voice which just said, 'Bail...
...corps to a Saturday party, and dancers were flown all the way from Amboina Island for the occasion. Sukarno, who is still preaching "guided democracy" without ever denning it, rules Indonesia through two men: 1) his hand-picked Premier Djuanda Kartawidjaja, 2) his hand-picked army Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution, who surprised both the rebels and foreign observers by the speed and skill with which he drove the rebellious colonels into the jungle last spring...
...personally honest and capable, is reported on the verge of quitting his job in despair at Indonesia's political inefficiency, graft and corruption. To General Nasution, this Augean mess appears as an opportunity. He is quietly moving the officers of his 200,000-man army into key positions. Lieut. Colonel Suprajogi has taken over the newly created Ministry of Economic Stabilization; Colonel Rudy Pirngadie has been assigned to the task of drawing up a new law for future mining and oil exploitation, a matter of vital interest to such firms as U.S. Stanvac and Royal Dutch Shell...