Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military regime lifted the ban on TIME. Bangkok Bureau Chief Louis Kraar flew into Djakarta to witness the mopping-up operations of Lieut. General Suharto's troops and the radical political changes that the military were setting in motion. After two weeks, the door closed again and Kraar had to leave. In the sub sequent tense weeks of struggle between Sukarno and the army, we found other ways of keeping informed. This week's cover is the 23rd story that we have run on Indonesia since the attempted coup...
...Lieut. General Suharto, 48, is a stocky (5 ft. 6 in., 150 Ibs.) professional officer with wavy black hair, alert brown eyes, and an open, almost innocent face. He never had more than a high school education. At the time of the coup, he was virtually unknown outside the army. Whereas Sukarno has had at least six wives and seven children, Suharto has only one wife and six children. Sukarno drove around in a motorcade of screaming sirens (which Djakartans refer to as his "mating call"), while Suharto went about his duties in a Japanese Jeep. Suharto was more than...
...Lieut. Colonel James R. Hopkins, 42, of Norman. Okla., a veteran of 47 World War 11 missions, 100 Korean War missions and 60 raids over North Viet Nam, led the Air Force pack into Hanoi and admitted that he was as nervous as "a football player going out to play...
There was no dearth of suggestions during the two-week hearings, ranging from Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey's insistence that selective service be left intact to proposals that the draft give way to a totally voluntary system with higher pay as the incentive to serve. A World War II-style lottery was the most popular proposal, with Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Teddy Kennedy its foremost advocate. A more intriguing solution was offered by New York's Democratic Congressman Otis Pike: eligible men should be allowed the choice of being drafted for three years or enlisting...
...Died. Lieut. General Richard K. Sutherland, 72, MacArthur's World War II chief of staff who, as his commander's alter ego, shared the darkest and finest hours-from the bitter Corregidor retreat in 1942 to the final surrender ceremony aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in September 1945; after a long illness; in Washington...