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Only a week before Bill Clinton was due to arrive in Indonesia for a state visit, a court in the northern city of Medan sentenced labor leader Muchtar Pakpahan to three years in prison. Pakpahan is the sixth official of the Indonesian Prosperity Trade Union to be convicted in connection with workers' riots that wrecked several factories and blocks of shops in Medan earlier this year. Sixteen of his colleagues are still on trial in what looks to many like an attempt to bust a union that the authoritarian Indonesian government views as dangerously independent. U.S. officials "deplored" Pakpahan...
Fully 7,000 more Chinese are waiting in the North Sumatran port of Medan for a Red Chinese ship that Peking has promised to send, but it can only carry 700 passengers. Last week 162 Chinese landed in Hong Kong from Indonesia, many of them setting foot on the mainland of Asia for the first time in their lives. Like all new arrivals, they had about them an air of ineffable hope and naiveté. Said Hsiao Hsing-fa, 38, and headed for a new life in Red-ruled Canton: "I am not worried by what I read...
...preparing a purge of all Communists in the armed services, and there was dark talk of a sweeping decree banning the Indonesian Communist Party (P.K.I.). Under army pressure, Parliament suspended all its 57 Communist members. And as Yao yelped, 100,000 Moslem students attacked the Red Chinese consulate in Medan on Sumatra, tore down its flag, and howled "Chinese Go Home" for an hour...
...States." Act II, performed as Green drove back to the U.S. embassy, featured 2,000 Communist students and women chanting "Green, go home," and waving posters saying GET OUT OR WE'LL KICK YOU OUT. By way of epilogue, another 1,000 youths stoned the U.S. consulate at Medan, plastering its walls with signs reading GO HOME...
...cause damage," lectured Indonesia's President Sukarno to a group of university students. It seemed a strange note to strike, in view of the fact that four times in the past three months Sukarno had permitted Indonesian mobs to storm USIS offices in Djakarta, Surabaya and Medan, smashing windows, ripping down American flags, burning thousands of books...