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Inviting foreign newsmen to visit Macassar, Indonesia's invasion headquarters in the Celebes, Sukarno saw to it that the streets were draped with banners proclaiming in plain English: WE WILL GIVE OUR LIVES FOR IRIAN BARAT. No less clear to Western correspondents was the combat unreadiness of ill-fed, ill-disciplined, ill-conditioned infantrymen who, as one put it, "seemed exhausted after a 30-minute demonstration that would scarcely have tired a Finch College hockey team...
Conrad's enchanted prisoner of the tropics is Willems (Trevor Howard), a weakling fired from his job in Macassar for stealing, who goes to live at a lonely trading post run by pompous Almayer (Robert Morley) and his wife (Wendy Hiller). Willems falls in love-temporarily but passionately-with Aissa, a sinuous, savage native beauty (played by Kerima, a 22-year-old Arab girl) for whom he sells out the secret of the post's channel shipping route. Also on hand: Captain Tom Lingard (Ralph Richardson), man of the sea and lover of justice, who punishes Willems...
With 150 of his own men plus some 600 deserters, Aziz swiftly overwhelmed Macassar's few Republican soldiers, and in 45 minutes held control of the city. He asserted that the central government was violating East Indonesian autonomy, warned government troops not to attempt a landing in Macassar...
...Aziz to report in person to Jakarta (formerly Batavia), the Indonesian capital. When he refused to budge, he was labeled a rebel. Government army units began to mobilize along the north Java coast, despite the fact that they had no ships other than Dutch to transport them to Macassar...
...safe conduct by government negotiators. The Indonesian Information Ministry said that Aziz was not a prisoner. The Indonesian Defense Ministry announced, howover, that he was a prisoner and would be court-martialed immediately. In Jakarta, the government at week's end was not quite sure who held Macassar...